Good morning, Team Rachel. If possible get outside and enjoy your day - winter is on it's way.



(don't answer, I know, I know

I believe @Alaskan is delusional, must be a frozen mind.
yes....yes I am
Nobody mentioned Widow Maker snow - the heavy, heavy wet snow. My mom always used to carry on that my father would have a heart attack shoveling snow. So we'd lose the house and have no where to live. My siblings ignored this. I took it to heart.
I have shoveled snow since I was young, to keep my father alive and a roof over our heads.
My fathers been gone several years BUT, I still shovel the snow. There are no sidewalks here. But my brother comes over on the weekend. I have to shovel a long driveway so that he doesn't get stuck in the snow. I also have to shovel out my end of the street because the village thinks there is NO ONE worth bothering with in the last house (me) .Some years they push all the street snow in front of MY mailbox.
I complained one year, telling those at village hall, I was a senior citizen and the plow driver not only buried my mailbox but also anyway to get into the driveway. The street ends a few feet UP the driveway. I get tired of repeating this to them. Forty eight years of doing my end of the street because the guy in a huge truck with plow is too lazy to go to the end . Adjacent to the driveway on the west side, is an empty, easement - where snow can easily be pushed and piled up.
One year they said they would send a driver 'right out' to clear the mailbox & bottom of driveway. By the time they showed up late that day, I had it clear and the street up to my next neighbor. Also cleared out paths to the mailbox for 3 of the neighbors. Once I get going, it's hard to stop.
Because I do such a great job I am rewarded by people letting their dogs poop all over the driveway.I have not had a dog since 1989.


