Yesterday the snow event dropped oh maybe an inch or two of snow. We didn't get so much that the entire world came to a stop, just the schools and possibly some delayed openings for businesses. Jeff shoveled the driveway to get close to blacktop. Years ago when we first moved here from California and after our first really big snow, Jeff didn't hop up early in the morning to begin the tiring task of shoveling. Here's the deal - if you don't shovel your driveway and then you drive on it, you end up with ruts from your tires that can ice over. Ice is much hardier to get rid of than snow, a lesson that only had to be taught to us once! Our motto after and sometimes even during a snowstorm is that blacktop is beautiful. The less snow on your driveway means that when the sun does come out and temperatures rise, you'll be rewarded with a clean driveway.
Once a winter storm hits the area, so do all the snow plows and salt/sand trucks. This is a good thing but it's also a messy thing. Our car is white (or at least it was before we went out on the roads yesterday), now it's gray, dirty and ugly looking. I hate driving a dirty car. So my mission today, if it gets warm enough, is to drag out my hose and car soap and give the car a brief wash to knock the first layer of muck off! At this point to be really clean I need to take the car to a car wash so that they can rinse off under the car to get rid of the sand and salt.
Because it's warming up, the snow that is still on the ground will soon melt and we will have had our first snow event for December. Of course there are many days left in December as well as many months before spring, so who knows how many snow events we'll actually have. What I do know is that each and every time the snow falls, it's beautiful, and I keep my car wash bucket and soap handy!
Life is like a field of newly fallen snow.
Where I choose to walk every step will show.
Happy Wednesday.
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Happy Wednesday to you too! Have a great day tomorrow.
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