Winter Daze
February 26th, 2008I haven’t posted in a while. Rather than list off a litany of lame excuses (why should you care?), I’ll just share one activity that’s taking up some time for me these days:
We’ve already set a new record for snowfall this year. And being of contrarian nature, I choose not to own a snow blower since shoveling is amongst the only exercise I get. (Sure beats sitting at a desk all day every day.)
But this is getting out of hand. By my estimates, I’ve shoveled around 200 cubic yards of snow this winter. That would fill 13 dump trucks, or 5,000 shovel scoops. The neighbor kids have taken to using our snow mounds for sledding.
Only another month or so to go. Next year I’m getting a snow blower.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Wow, I thought we were having a crazy snow year over here in Utah. Our piles of snow only got about 5 or 6 feet tall. But I am with you, all the neighbors can keep their silly snow blowers, shoveling is great break from programming :).
February 26th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Wow! On the plus side, you probably now have arms like an action figure.
Seeing those photos reminded me what winter is supposed to look like. We had a whopping four inches of snow the other week (the first time in ages) and people acted like it was the end of the world…