Snow Removal

Circle snow piled up in centre island

Our cul de sac BEFORE clearing

Our main street after graders

Our street after graders

A beautiful day today - a high of +6 C and the sun is shining. It is helping to melt some of the snow. The grader came through this morning and nicely piled it up again against the sidewalks and totally blocking any parking in front of the houses. It makes for a nice one lane drive now. I say that 'tongue in cheek' as it is a bit of a job to try and remove all those ice chunks to get some space.  I saw a 'bobcat' working down at the end of the avenue so took a trip down there to see how much he charged. He lives on the avenue and cleaned out his own as well as a few neighbors. He agreed to do ours tonite or tomorrow (small fee) and I said I would see if anyone else wanted his services.  Thank goodness he was willing to do so or else we would have these piles for another month or more. There is snowfall predicted for tonite and tomorrow and cooling temperatures. Wouldn't you know it!

I was getting ready to go out for lunch with a few friends when I heard the beep, beep, beep of the grader backing up. By then he had started ploughing and closing in the driveway with chunks of ice. I finished dressing and got ready to leave and stopped on the sidewalk and motioned to him. He very graciously offered to clear away the snow if I wanted to get out right then or else I would have to wait until the city bobcat made his way down the street. I took his offer and got out while I could. John came home later to find he had to shovel a bit more for me to get in with my car. I guess in the long run we will appreciate having pavement instead of snow - especially when it starts melting. What a mess.  We could use a few more warm days like this to get things cleaned up but I don't think we are going to get it. Guess them's the breaks when you live in the north country!

So much for my clean car. The streets are all puddles and water and dirty snow. Yuk! We were going to the show tonite but now the guy with the bobcat 'may' be here tonite or tomorrow morning (depends on his schedule) so we will sit tight and hope it is earlier than later!