Snowed in?
The Driveway Challenge.
When you cannot make it into work because you are "snowed in", your colleagues will probably be understanding (with a touch of envy), because you live an adventurous life. However, if you do it more than once, this will change.
We bought our house over 30 years ago. We were used to stepping out of the house, after a snowstorm, onto cleared sidewalks, and plowed streets. In our first winter in the country, we found the snow shovels and started shoveling. Shoveling a 600 yards long driveway is, even for fit young people, a challenge. Therefore, we very quickly hired the neighbor’s son to plow our driveway.
So then we only shoveled the porch, the stoop and made the paths to the firewood (still without a shed), the ash barrel and the bird feeder. A couple of years later, we bought a snow blower to make life easier. We felt on top of things. Hiring somebody to plow makes sense. Usually they just plow and unintentionally leave piles of snow in places you actually need for your paths.
Plowed snow transforms into a block of very hard packed material, which is very hard to break up. Then we got our pickup truck with a plow, and things changed. We plowed the driveway the way we wanted it done and plowed promptly after a storm. Of course, we added extra paths with the snow blower.
We felt like we were the masters of our universe. But after a blizzard with three feet of snow, our roof was aching. We had to get a roof rake to free our roof from all the snow. Although it was very fine powdery snow, it still weighs at least 5 pounds per one square foot!
Having a long driveway is great in the summertime, but a challenge in the winter. It has one advantage though: you get all the exercise you need to stay fit! .
The Driveway Challenge.
When you cannot make it into work because you are "snowed in", your colleagues will probably be understanding (with a touch of envy), because you live an adventurous life. However, if you do it more than once, this will change.
We bought our house over 30 years ago. We were used to stepping out of the house, after a snowstorm, onto cleared sidewalks, and plowed streets. In our first winter in the country, we found the snow shovels and started shoveling. Shoveling a 600 yards long driveway is, even for fit young people, a challenge. Therefore, we very quickly hired the neighbor’s son to plow our driveway.
So then we only shoveled the porch, the stoop and made the paths to the firewood (still without a shed), the ash barrel and the bird feeder. A couple of years later, we bought a snow blower to make life easier. We felt on top of things. Hiring somebody to plow makes sense. Usually they just plow and unintentionally leave piles of snow in places you actually need for your paths.
Plowed snow transforms into a block of very hard packed material, which is very hard to break up. Then we got our pickup truck with a plow, and things changed. We plowed the driveway the way we wanted it done and plowed promptly after a storm. Of course, we added extra paths with the snow blower.
We felt like we were the masters of our universe. But after a blizzard with three feet of snow, our roof was aching. We had to get a roof rake to free our roof from all the snow. Although it was very fine powdery snow, it still weighs at least 5 pounds per one square foot!
Having a long driveway is great in the summertime, but a challenge in the winter. It has one advantage though: you get all the exercise you need to stay fit! .
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