This time, we’re supposed to get a good 18″ dump tomorrow, although I’m skeptical. It’s still sunny-overcast. Just in case, we’re going to make chicken divan for dinner tonight, and Swiss steak for dinner tomorrow. They’re both good dishes for sub-freezing weather. Plus, we’re going to need some calories to go out there to shovel and snowplow the cement/stone perimeter of the house, and our really long driveway.
Our baby Kubota tractor with its snowblower attachment, and front end loader can take care of most of the driveway, but the top is steep where it meets the public road, and that section almost never gets sun. Rock salt might be in order for that, after the snow removal. Around the house perimeter, it’s mostly shoveling by hand, although the walk-behind snowblower helps, so that any USPS, UPS, or FedEx delivery people can still make deliveries. We have to be judicious with our use of rock salt, because we do not want our 11 year old dog burning his paws stepping on it, but we can also walk him on leash, and not let him near anywhere we have to use salt.
I like snow, when I don’t need to go anywhere, but we have to visit my mom on Sunday. The roads should be clear by then, but mostly I need to ask her what she wants us to bring over besides food and Christmas presents, because visiting her on Christmas has already been verboten by both her governor and retirement community.
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