Sorry if things are a little slow this weekend with the posts, I’ve been enjoying the New England weather.<\/p>\n
This weekend we have been blessed with an early December snow storm.\u00a0 And even though it’s not the first snow of the season this was the first legitimately annoying snow of the year.\u00a0 That’s because it was one of our trifecta storms.\u00a0 It starts with a typhoon of rain, then it shifts to sleet and ends with a good think layer of snow.\u00a0 When you get that combination it is delightfully heavy and certain to cause back ache, heart palpitations and exhaustion.\u00a0 And it requires two separate removal operations.\u00a0 Once the sleet ends and the snow begins in earnest you have to remove the slushy layer before it turns into a bottom layer of rock-like ice.\u00a0 So you spend several hours (depending on the size of your driveway and parking area) shoveling and slinging slush and that is the heaviest snow there is.\u00a0 And unfortunately snow blowers really don’t handle slush very well so this has to be done with the good old snow shovel.<\/p>\n
Then you wait until the storm is over and remove the snow.\u00a0 But unfortunately there is always an ice layer at the bottom even after the initial slush removal step so this is never as easy as a dry snowstorm.\u00a0 It rained here on Friday through to Saturday morning.\u00a0 The sleet started early and the snow began at 10 am.\u00a0 I spent about three hours on Saturday slinging slush.\u00a0 The snow was over by Sunday morning and I got to work again and finished up by 2 pm today.\u00a0 Global warming, my foot.<\/p>\n
So I’m behind on my writing but I haven’t heard about anymore snow coming anytime soon so I’ll catch up pretty quickly.\u00a0 Maybe the lousy weather is why New Englanders are such perverse creatures.\u00a0 They want to share their misery with everyone and being experts they do a thorough job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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