We are getting our second shot of winter. January was warm, dry, actually nice.
But now winter is back; up at 3:50, shoveling 3" off the driveway, then to the gym, get back, SWMBO heads to work at 5:15 or therebouts.
Calls me and says she left her phone,,,,,,,,,,,so another 2" to shovel before heading out through the covered and slow going streets to drop off the phone, get to work about 6:30 and more shoveling for the walk; snow removal guy shows up for all the parking lot, move the two parked autos to the field so he has a clear shot...??..
Meeting a client at 10:30, check to be sure we are still on, need to give myself extra time to get there.?ÿ
Snow just takes up a lot of the day.?ÿ
Oddly enough we got about 6" of snow yesterday here in central OK.?ÿ Shoveled the drive and back patio for the dogs.?ÿ They love it.
It was 15d when I woke up this AM but it's a balmy 24 now.?ÿ I had the good fortune to be able to clear my schedule for a couple of days.?ÿ Nothing to do but put on a pot of beans.?ÿ It's east to enjoy "winter" in OK because in 3 days it will be 60 degrees and all the white stuff will be gone. 😉
Understand what you are going through based on my few years living in the snow belt in Michigan adjacent to the east shore of Lake Michigan.?ÿ Crazy amounts of snow could fall in very short periods of time.?ÿ Mountains of snow had to be removed from business drives and parking areas by dump trucks to remote locations numerous times each winter.?ÿ Can recall parking at work on bare pavement at 8:00 a.m. then the snow was a few inches deeper than the bottom of the car doors by 10:00 a.m. when we all went home for the rest of the day while we still had a prayer of making it.?ÿ One thing that really aggravated me was the stupid snow plow driver who was paid to clear the driveways in our apartment complex of five buildings with 12 apartments each.?ÿ Each building had a long car port with 12 parking spaces, one assigned to each apartment.?ÿ That idiot always drove such that he left a massive ridge directly behind all of the vehicles at about 5:00 a.m.?ÿ He could have driven in the opposite direction and put the ridge in the grassy area by each building.
Maybe two inches here but the big problem was ice. Expecting 43F by mid-afternoon. Goodbye snow, hello slush and mud.
Not sure how we're going to survive here in Austin... ????
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(@Wendell, tried multiple times to attach a couple photos, followed the "pop up" directions, did the "drag and drop" option...added photos using Attach Files and My Media, checked boxes, add to post button....all with no success)
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T. Nelson - SAM
Weather here in Puget Sound; only a trout or salmon would like.?ÿ I will be in the field today trying to forget that I was in Maui last week.?ÿ
Maybe two inches here but the big problem was ice.?ÿ Expecting 43F by mid-afternoon.?ÿ Goodbye snow, hello slush and mud.
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Yeah, we had about an hour of frozen rain (1/4") before the snow started.?ÿ Nearly busted my ass yesterday when I realized what was underneath the snow..
up at 3:50, shoveling 3" off the driveway, then to the gym, get back
Shovel off the driveway AND go to the gym. Your BMI must be perfect, or damn close!?ÿ
You are hereby awarded, by the authority I've granted myself. one ATTABOY!
@flga
I'm going to the beach in a few weeks, I don't need any more of those pictures from the last couple of times I've been out there.
They were horrifying. I've tried to find and purge them all.
Plus,,,,,I've had some health issues I need to take care of,,,,,so far so good!!!
What I have done is stick the pic on the desktop edge, then drag and drop. I don't know why, but it works.
Lack of pride in one's work.?ÿ It's easy to pass it off as incompetence or laziness but nobody is so dumb that they wouldn't recognize the error in doing that, and even a lazy person will get it right... eventually.?ÿ It's also not a matter of cutting a small corner and hoping no one will notice.?ÿ No, that's someone who takes no pride in their work and doesn't care if the world knows it.
It's really too bad when someone is in a position to affect multiple people like that and uses that position to contribute misery to the world.?ÿ It only takes 1 act like that to start a dozen people's day off on a bad note while it'll take a dozen individual acts of kindness, or goodwill, or whatever you want to call it, to undo that misery.?ÿ It's easy to see how that math will likely play out.
To me stuff like this is a perfect example of why there is such a high amount of misery in the world despite all of the technological advances, higher standards of living, and so on.?ÿ I don't know how, but if it were possible to magically get people into lines of work that they took pride in I don't think you would see nearly as much misery in the world as you do today.
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Found a few posts in the updates thread expressing the same issue so it's not just me....this time. ????
T. Nelson - SAM
Photos from the Austin "snow" event...
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T. Nelson - SAM
I've seen them close schools and empty grocery store shelves up here with snow events like that...
Getting to work that morning was as easy like Sunday morning...so many people stayed home due to "slick roads".
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T. Nelson - SAM
I've seen them close schools and empty grocery store shelves up here with snow events like that...
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Around here they don't need a snow event.?ÿ Just MENTION snow on the news and the milk and bread disappear.
Andy
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