December 8 - 6:00  PM
It started to snow.  The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses Print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow!


December 9
We woke to a beautiful blanket of crystal  white snow covering every inch of the landscape. What a fantastic  sight!  Can there be a more lovely place in the whole world?   Moving here was the best idea I've ever had!  Shoveled for the first time in years and felt like a boy again. I did both our  driveway and the sidewalks.  This afternoon the snowplough came along and covered up the sidewalks and closed in the driveway, so I got to shovel again.  What a perfect life!


December 12
The sun has melted all our lovely snow.  Such a disappointment!  My neighbor tells me not to worry- we'll definitely have a white Christmas.   No snow on Christmas would be awful!  Bob says we'll have so much snow by the end of winter, that I'll never want to see snow again.  I  don't think that's possible. Bob is such a nice man, I'm glad he's our neighbor.


December 14
Snow, lovely snow! 8 inches last  night.  The temperature dropped to minus 20.  The cold makes everything sparkle so!  The wind took my breath away, but I warmed up by shoveling the driveway and sidewalks.  This is the life!  The snowplough came back this
afternoon and buried everything again.  I didn't realize I would have to do quite this much shoveling, but I'll certainly get back in shape this way.  I wish I wouldn't huff and puff so.


December 15
20 inches forecast.  Sold my van and bought a 4x4 Blazer.  Bought snow tires for the wife's car and 2 extra shovels.  Stocked the freezer.  The wife wants a wood stove in case the electricity goes out. I think that's silly.  We aren't in Alaska, after all.

December 16
Ice storm this morning.  Fell on my rear on the ice in the driveway putting down salt.   Hurt like all get out.  The wife laughed for an hour, which I think was unnecessary and very cruel.


December 17
Still way below freezing.   Roads are too icy to go anywhere.  Electricity was off for 5 hours. I had to pile the blankets on to stay warm.  Nothing to do but stare at the wife and try not to irritate her.  Guess I  should've bought a wood stove, but won't admit it to her.  I hate it when she's right.  I can't believe I'm literally freezing to death in my own living room.


December 20
Electricity's back on, but we had another 14 inches of the darn stuff last night. More  shoveling! Took all day.  The  snowplow came by twice.  Tried to find a neighbor kid to shovel, but they said they're too busy playing hockey.  I think they're lying.  Called the only hardware store around to see about buying a snow blower and they're out.  Might have another shipment in March.  I think they're lying.  Bob says I have to shovel or the city will have it done and  bill me.  I think he's lying.

December 22
Bob was right about a white Christmas because 13 more inches of the white crap fell today, and it's so cold, it probably won't melt till August.  Took me 45 minutes to get all dressed up to go out to shovel and then I had to pee.  By the time I got undressed, peed and dressed again, I was too tired to shovel.  Tried to hire Bob who has a plow on his truck for the rest  of the winter, but he says he's too busy.  I think he's  lying.


December 23
Only 2 inches of snow today.  And it warmed up to 0.  The wife wanted me to decorate the front of the house this morning.  What is she, nuts?!!  Why didn't she tell me to do that a month ago?  She says she did but I think she's lying.


December 24
6 inches - Snow packed so hard by snowplow, I  broke the shovel.  Thought I was having a heart attack.  If I ever catch the son of a ----- who drives that snow plough, I'll drag him through the snow by his hair and beat him to death with my broken shovel.  I  know he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then he comes down the street at a 100 miles an hour and throws snow all over where I've just been! 
Tonight the wife wanted me to sing Christmas carols with her and open our presents, but I was too busy watching for the  snowplow.


December 25
Merry Christmas!!!! NOT!!   20 more inches of the slop tonight - Snowed in. The idea of shoveling makes my blood boil.   I hate the snow!  Then the snowplow driver came by asking for an orphanage donation and I hit him over the head with my shovel.  The wife says I  have a bad attitude. I think she's a idiot.  If I have to watch "It's A Wonderful Life" one more time, I'm going to stuff her into the microwave.


December 26
Still snowed in.  Why did I  ever move here?  It was all HER idea.  She's really getting on my nerves.


December 27
Temperature dropped to minus 30 and the pipes froze; plumber came after 14 hours of waiting for him, he only charged me $2,400 to replace all my pipes.


December 28
Warmed up to minus 20.  Still snowed in.  My WIFE is driving me crazy!!!


December 29
10 more inches.  Bob says I have to shovel the roof or it could cave in. That's the silliest thing I ever heard.  How dumb does he think I am?


December 30
Roof caved in.  I beat up the snow plough driver, and now he is suing me for a million dollars, The wife went home to her mother.  Nine more inches predicted.


December  31
I set fire to what's left of the house.  No more  shoveling.


January 5
Feel so good.  I just love those little white pills they keep giving me.  Why am I tied to the  bed?

Two weeks ago my old 8 horse tecumsa blower engine backfired and caught on fire because the carb was leaking fuel. Needless to say I didn't get the snow cleared away that evening. The next day I got a notice from the mail carrier that I will have to pick my mail up at the post office because my sidewalk wasn't cleared. The notice was in the mail box, but no mail. That evening I shovelled for 2 hours and cleared every thing up. On the third day as I was getting ready for work, I heard the snowplows go by and bury the end of the driveway in two and a half feet of heavy wet snow. An hour of shovelling cleared that mess up but on the fourth day.. Another 8 inches of that cold white crap. (True story) 

Steve M wrote on Feb 16^th, 2011 at 6:08pm:

beaky wrote on Feb 17^th, 2011 at 5:16pm:


You've captured my own reaction perfectly Sean. 

ApplePie wrote on Feb 17^th, 2011 at 6:30pm:


You're making my eyes water,           

Make me glad I live in a apartment.