Shout Out to a Friend!

Vol 3, Iss 5 Bayfield, CO -

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"I found a snow remover.   He drove up in a big yellow machine with a bucket in front and a backhoe on the back.  Because the machine was so big, he couldn't really do the great job that the other snow remover was doing with his little snow cat, but he damned sure moved some mounds of snow.  Where he cut through the drive without piling up snow, I have a wall anywhere from 25-28" high.  The stack of snow at the north side of the south is anywhere from 8-10' high.   Because the tree limbs hang so low at the north end of the drive even with the house, he couldn't get his bucket in far enough to clear all the way to what's left of the woodpile.  I managed to clear a path wide enough to run the wheelbarrow through from the wood stack to the front porch.  Tomorrow, I've got to clear snow from the outside of the fireplace so I can get to the door to clean out my ash dump.  I'm telling you that, though I'm getting better at it,  this snow shovelling takes a LOT of strength and energy, which means that I shovelshovelshovel, gaspgaspgasp, restrestrest, drinkdrinkdrink, then shovelshovelshovel again."