[Nfbmt] orientation & snow shoveling of sidewalks

[Rebecca Stewart]

You all make me feel guilty.  I don't EVER shovel snow.  Randi takes care of
it.  I wouldn't hesitate to go try it but I have a very bad back that is
hurting very badly right now as I sit here typing to you guys just from the
listing of this ship and the crummy mattress on the bed we are sleeping each
night.  You guys make it sound like so much fun to shovel snow, I wish I
could do it:)
Becca 

-----Original Message-----
From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rik James
Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 6:57 PM
To: NFB of Montana Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] orientation & snow shoveling of sidewalks

So far, you are all impressing me with so much honesty.

I think more and more about what it just might be like to not have the snow
to shovel. Age? Maybe? Tired of ice? Sure!
And as I walked around town today there were a number of folks who are quite
satisfied to leave it all be. Grumble grumble.

And actually you know, as Mr. Aldrich and Mr. Robbins mentioned, about
neighbor or a relative doing the task. Do you know what happened just this
afternoon?

Our neighbor across the alley, she asked Karen a question that I have never
anticipated.
She lives, as I said in a house that faces our alley and so does not have a
sidewalk.
And she asked Karen, say who shovels your sidewalk? Would you mind if I did
it sometimes? I really miss it.
She moved here from Chicago a couple years ago.

Now isn't that nice?
I wonder how much she would pay?

We do have another neighbor whow has a big snow blower. Once in a blue
blizzard he gets it out and if he takes a mind to, and if it is the kind of
snow that is suitable he has made a pass or two across our sidewalk. It sure
is a quick job.

Tomorrow I may get a notion to write further about snow shoveling. And
actually sweeping the snow off of the concrete with a straw broom. I
actually think if you get on it early and often it is the cat's meow for
keeping that concrete clean-o. I learned that from a former neighbor here. 
She was almost 90-years-old. And she would be out there with that broom
about every half hour during the snowstorm.  I kind of was puzzled at it
back then. Now, I have come to see how right she was about it. Keeping it
from sticking by getting it up and off before anyone goes and stomps all
over it.

But I am just strange. Am I not?
I think it is pretty good physical exercise. But you have to keep certain
posture and breathe, pull from the gut and not from the back. Use your legs.

Etc. Etc.

And of course if I was coming home at night after a hard day at the salt
mines, that is a shovel of a different color indeed.

Good day, sports fans.
Rik 


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