Last night we got the first snow of the season... The fine folks over at AccuWeather were calling for a coating to an inch for my area of New Jersey... Typically that means we'll get next to nothing, because I live in this strange little tropical section of New Jersey, where my parents to the north get clobbered, and my sister to the south gets hit, when I get a cloudy day... Weird... But helpful at times... This time though, there was no way in hell we were going to get a miss... I watched the front come across, and it was big enough that there was no escape this time... However, I wasn't sweating it, because I had started up the snow blower three weeks ago to make sure all was well, and failing that, the shovel never breaks down (and I even have multiple backup shovels, but that's for another post...). So I went to sleep knowing I'd have to deal with something in the morning...
I woke up at 7:30 (which should be a crime on a Sunday) and noticed my skylight was covered with snow... That seemed a bit off since we were only getting a coating to an inch, and that skylight leaks heat like a sieve... I knew then, that we got a bit more than predicted, but hell, it still wasn't going to be a big deal...
On with the boots, coat, gloves, and out to the garage, noting it was about an inch and a half of heavy wet snow... No problem... The snow-blower is huge... It runs well... It has starter that plugs in to the wall so you don't have to pull it, or worry about batteries being dead... It was also almost out of gas... Shit... Clean off a car, go get gas, com back and deal with the snow... Still, I was only annoyed I hadn't filled the tank when I had started it up earlier... Whatever...
Rosanne's (I don't know her name, but here after, the neighbors to my left will be Rosanne's family) son was out shoveling... He wandered over to the fence when I said good morning, and asked with complete honesty... "Geesh, who saw this coming?
Um... Well... Everybody?...
Posted by Backstage at December 4, 2005 10:34 AM | TrackBack