At Home in the Snow Belt

I'm home safely again.  We did indeed get at least a foot and a half of snow while I was gone.  The trip was harder, in a way, coming home than going.  At Butler, the roads were wet.  At Franklin the roads were slushy.  At Titusville the roads were snow covered and the worst roads of all were right in Corry itself.

I have learned that it is easier to shovel out of the driveway than to shovel into the driveway.  For one thing, if the car is parked in the driveway, I don't have to shovel the place under it.

When I got home, I saw that the snow was really deep in the driveway but I decided to give it a try and see if I could muscle my way into it.  Of course I couldn't.  I got stuck, but people could get past behind me.  So I decided to let the car sit there and take the dogs into the house, turn the heat up again, get the shovel and dig myself into the driveway.

While I got the dogs out of the car, my pastor neighbor who lives catty-corner across the intersection from me, came to help me get the car unstuck.  Then one of the boys I taught in first grade more than 12 years ago stopped to help.  I said I would get the dogs settled in the house and come back out.  I said I trusted them to drive the car out of the stuck position if they could.  When I got back to the driveway, the car was parked in the school parking lot and Pastor was bringing me my keys and my purse.  I put those in the house, with many thanks, I hope.

Then I started to dig my way into the driveway.  It took about an hour and a half.  I wanted to finish because I suspected that after I got indoors, I wouldn't want to go back out to shovel again.

Now I've had lunch, had a hot bath and rested for a few minutes.  Now I'm ready to get to work again, but not shoveling quite yet.  I still have to do the back door neighbor path.  Maybe I'll do it before nightfall.

I was so in hopes that some miracle would have happened and I wouldn't have to shovel the driveway, but now I'm thankful that I had the energy to get the job done on my own.

Posted by: NJ on 11/26/2005 2:41:18 PM , 3 comments