Speaking of snow, this past Thursday the Maritimes received our first snow storm and the kids their first stay at home snow day. In the past five years I have been watching our neighbours with admitted jealousy as they snow blew the heaps of white stuff from their sidewalks and driveways. We have always chosen a tractor service. Though convenient, it has never been entirely gratifying. For years I have always imagined snow blowing to be the winter equivalent of mowing your lawn and I sincerely love mowing the lawn. Since Cody is officially done at Terra Nova we have finally purchased our own blower and Thursday marked its inaugural job, and in typical Jorgensen style, Cody was MIA. So, the honour fell to me. I fired it up and went to work on the 21cm of very wet snow that covered everything. Well, not really. It turns out I had it on the lowest throttle setting and moved very little snow. Oops. My neighbour sensed I was a little out of my comfort zone and he came over and pretty much cleared our whole driveway in the time I managed to do our sidewalk. Two hours later and two passes of the neighbourhood grater I had a cleanish work area, a sore body, cramped gripping muscles and one very bad attitude. Poor Cody. I wish for his sake we could record the crazy calls I have made to him over the years so that I could later listen to them, apologize for them and just possibly learn from them. Alas, we have not and thus I have not.
For the record, when Cody flew home yesterday, before he even set foot in the home he had been away from for five days he fired up that snowblower and got it going beautifully in order to prove to me that it wasn't a piece of poop like I had alleged!
Our snowbabies.
My Christmas dunces.
Their handiwork.
So tomorrow the official countdown begins for us all... concerts, cookies, cards, crafts, carols, parties, gingerbread houses and a little bit of shopping. I wish you and us all good luck!
Lots of cheer! CAKE
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