Sadderday
Dearest,
When I woke up this morning it was snowing like hell! I know, what else is new? So I went back to sleep. After a bit I got bored with sleeping and got up. I decided to take the garbage out. About one hour later I actually managed to deposit one bag of garbage in the out side container. First I had to locate the garbage cans, that took some educated guessing and I had to call on my very poor memory. Then I had to snow blow a path to their suspected location. After, locating and managing to reach the garbage cans I then had to dig them out enough, and uncover them enough, to open them. After accomplishing that I was able to return to the house, retrieve the garbage and transport it out to the garbage cans. Just to make everything so much easier, the sky threw snowballs at me, then ice, then water. It was so much fun!
When I returned from the Post Office there was water dripping from the ceiling fixtures in the front room. I put buckets under the drips. Ice dams! I got the ladder and various implements of destruction and climbed up to spend the remainder of the day prying ice off of the roof. None of my waterproof gloves turn out to be waterproof! By about 4:30 every glove I own was soaked through, as was I, so I came in. There are wet clothes hanging everywhere in the house. I am wearing a bunch of mismatched but warm stuff that I found in the clean clothes pile. Oh, yeah well I didn’t have time to put them away. The dripping was stopped, much of the ice dam was cleared and more snow was removed from the roof. I gave the dripped water to the grapefruit tree.
Everyone is adamant that I stay off the roof! So tomorrow, weather permitting, I’m going to go up on the roof. There is no other way to reach all the damn snow up there. If the sun comes out I should have enough cleared area to work in and I should be able to clear the remainder of the roof. Eric saw the sun shining yesterday and asked Kristin “sun not sleeping?” His mother told him no today it looks like the sun is awake. To which Eric responded “Go outside now!” Well at least he’s got his priorities straight, he just doesn’t understand that the snow is deeper than he is tall.
By 2:00pm or so it was very icy out there, cars were sliding sideways past the house, so I opted to stay put and hope for a better day tomorrow. I do that a lot lately, hope that tomorrow is a better day, it won’t be but I still hope.
Till the snow stops falling, Your Ken
When I woke up this morning it was snowing like hell! I know, what else is new? So I went back to sleep. After a bit I got bored with sleeping and got up. I decided to take the garbage out. About one hour later I actually managed to deposit one bag of garbage in the out side container. First I had to locate the garbage cans, that took some educated guessing and I had to call on my very poor memory. Then I had to snow blow a path to their suspected location. After, locating and managing to reach the garbage cans I then had to dig them out enough, and uncover them enough, to open them. After accomplishing that I was able to return to the house, retrieve the garbage and transport it out to the garbage cans. Just to make everything so much easier, the sky threw snowballs at me, then ice, then water. It was so much fun!
When I returned from the Post Office there was water dripping from the ceiling fixtures in the front room. I put buckets under the drips. Ice dams! I got the ladder and various implements of destruction and climbed up to spend the remainder of the day prying ice off of the roof. None of my waterproof gloves turn out to be waterproof! By about 4:30 every glove I own was soaked through, as was I, so I came in. There are wet clothes hanging everywhere in the house. I am wearing a bunch of mismatched but warm stuff that I found in the clean clothes pile. Oh, yeah well I didn’t have time to put them away. The dripping was stopped, much of the ice dam was cleared and more snow was removed from the roof. I gave the dripped water to the grapefruit tree.
Everyone is adamant that I stay off the roof! So tomorrow, weather permitting, I’m going to go up on the roof. There is no other way to reach all the damn snow up there. If the sun comes out I should have enough cleared area to work in and I should be able to clear the remainder of the roof. Eric saw the sun shining yesterday and asked Kristin “sun not sleeping?” His mother told him no today it looks like the sun is awake. To which Eric responded “Go outside now!” Well at least he’s got his priorities straight, he just doesn’t understand that the snow is deeper than he is tall.
By 2:00pm or so it was very icy out there, cars were sliding sideways past the house, so I opted to stay put and hope for a better day tomorrow. I do that a lot lately, hope that tomorrow is a better day, it won’t be but I still hope.
Till the snow stops falling, Your Ken
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