Paid the Price today!!!

The last couple of nuisance storms I have gotten really lazy about plowing.  After doing the raining, sleeting or snowing overnight, I would get up, the sun would come out and I would watch the icy material melt away before I had a chance to go out and plow.

Sunday we had a snow event that started while I was at church, so when Sunday School was over, there was a lot of discussion of what to do but the snow was really falling fast, so not being one who does well on snowy roads, I opted to come home.  The snow came down heavily for quite a while then changed over to sleet and by the evening, the roads were icy and very dangerous.

In the morning I got up and watched as the snowsleetice (I just call it slop) slowly melted away.  It was not the brilliant, sunny day and it was not even very warm, but on the main, open part of the driveway, all of the slop disappeared.  I did the viewing from a distance and really did not venture out until later.  What I did not realize was that in the areas around and in between the van and the truck, the slop had become more compact and was not melting.

Last night we had another snowsleetice event, so this morning I awoke to more slop on the driveway.  This time I went out as there was no sun and the rain showers that was supposed to happen all day to wash away the slop did not begin until later in the afternoon and then it was more like a drizzle.  I knew that overnight tonight and into tomorrow there is going to be yet another storm...(have I mentioned that I am hating this winter?) that could give us anywhere from 4 inches to over a foot of snow, depending on the report that you listen too.  I am hoping that the weather dudes are wrong, but since it is being called all along the Eastern states as a bad storm, I am guessing that I will be plowing several times tomorrow so it does not get ahead of me.

But I did not want to go out and walk on the snow with an old sheet of ice underneath, so I headed out a little after 10 AM and spent two hours moving slop and slush.  But the area between where the van had been and the truck was parked was solid, packed frozen slop.  And the area right at the end of the deck steps was also frozen.  And no mater how much I plowed, I was not making any headway on getting rid of the slop.

I eventually took a shovel and snow shovel and got a path cut out from the deck steps to the lilac bush so that I will not kill myself going along the van and out to the mailbox.  But the mound between the van and the truck remained, but I did make it significantly smaller.  I worked hard and my shoulders and wrists are felling the result of the banging and chipping to get through the icy surfaces.  If I had just plowed on Monday..... if I had just plowed on Monday!