I went out to check on the snow conditions of the driveway yesterday. We'd gotten back late the night before. Two of the neighbors came by to welcome us home.
The biggest issue I saw was that the mailbox had been barricaded by the plowed snow.
When I got in there was a call from Nordic Lawns apologizing profusely and saying they would come out. This was NOT something that should happen. Meanwhile the mail carrier managed the steps I'd made and stuffed the mailbox with about as much mail as it could hold.
And then Nordic showed up to clear in front of the mailbox. So I went back out and asked if he could also just clear a space in front of the house for me to park the van, which is still sitting in the neighbors' driveway. It's great to have good neighbors. When I called him to ask if I could rent part of his driveway (his is double wide) he said no - I could just use it.
So now the berm the city left in front of the house - which would have meant I would have to park well into the traffic lane - has been rearranged with a space.
Then I rushed off with my wife's car to the Alaska Public Media Community Advisory meeting. I figure I can't reasonably complain about their practices until I know more. They went through their listener/viewer statistics for the Anchorage area. KSKA is the most listened to radio station for a number of time periods during the day.
And by the time I got home, my knee was bothering me again. So today I spent a lot of time with ice on my knee. That was good enough to allow me to shovel the deck. Tomorrow it's supposed to be warmer - into the 20s - so I'll wait til it's toasty to see if my car will start up after sitting there so long next door.
Alaska's - particularly further north - has had one of its coldest winters while the rest of the US and northern Europe have been having an unusually warm winter. It is nice to have snow that doesn't get turned to ice on a regular basis because the temp snakes above and below the freezing point regularly.
Sounds like you could use a skid-steer loader. All around handy inventions for moving snow, dirt, sod from the yard if you attempt to turn too short, etc. No offense but it was mid 60's here today and yesterday, with rain tonight and tomorrow and highs in the low 40s. Most of our snow has gone by the wayside. And there were two occasions, i9n the 40 plus years I have lived ion this section of farm land, where we have had moosies on this property. Not the magnificent beasts you have, but smaller Minnesota moose and no freaking bears!
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