I want to start by saying this is not a rant just sharing a moment in my life…
It has snowed a lot as I already reported. It’s about to my knees so I decided I better get the snow shoes out today… Even with the shoes on, The snow is so light and fluffy that I sink every step, almost up to my knees anyways. I am finding that every step is a workout of it’s own with the weight of the snow on the shoe but I’m up for a good workout … Leave the snow shoes on. Laundry day… The wagon is officially put away for the season so I go into the shed and grab the small sled and load up the laundry basket into it. The snow plow takes 2 people to start so Barry joins me so we can start it as I go by and we set off down the driveway. 10 steps and I’m panting like I just ran a 4 minute mile, the sled feels extremely heavy in the deep snow. We round the top of the driveway to find a tree down across it… no worries, we will go down the bat cave. The bat cave is a bit more of a challenge than the downhill slope of the driveway but it’s the only option at this point. I get to the shop and by now I think I’m going to die pulling this sled (Barry went ahead to get things ready). I’m happy to stop and help so I can take a breather. My part in starting the plow is to spray ether into the intake stack, well the can we are using right now is leaking and I end up with all over my hands and gloves… we get the plow going and I carry on my way only to start getting all woozie a few steps away. I stop, take off the gloves, a few deep breathes of fresh air and I’m feeling better…. It was at this point I started wondering how badly I actually needed clean clothes But I’m half way there now, no use turning back at this point. Even with having to break trail, going forward is the lesser of 2 evils … Now I get to the up hill part of my trek. My steps have gotten smaller as I drag the sled, suddenly my hero arrived, took the sled for me the rest of the way … Yay! There will be clean clothes today. The house was only 4* so I started a fire and hung out until it went into the dryer (save a trip), everywhere has been plowed now so we will go back with the dogs and bring the laundry back, it will be a considerably easier trek … Beats going to a laundry mat!
