No getting out to work today! My neighbor came to shovel me out about noon today. Around 1:30 the snow was removed from my front and back doors making it possible for me to go outside for the first time since yesterday morning. By tonight the front steps were again buried as was the walkway to the garage. A friend invited me out for pizza. With the aid of my Nordic Trekkers I made my way to the street where she picked me up. Under the snow pack the street was completely lined with a thick layer of ice.
It is so beautiful...and car accidents were rampant on streets and freeways. I am a true Minnesotan, born and raised in rural Minnesota where snow drifts along roads and between farm buildings were the rule. Actually it was normal and expected. But now I live in the city - have since 1998 and this is the first winter where it feels like I am back on the farm fighting to open doors and get to the garage and find an opening in the snowbanks between the sidewalks and the street so I can go about my usual schedule.
It will be sometime tomorrow before I will have the garage shoveled out. So I will either take the bus to work or my co-worker will pick me up and drive me in. Walking is out of the question - many sidewalks are still covered with two feet plus of packed snow.
It is SO beautiful and it is SO problematic. We have had draught conditions in Minnesota the last three summers. Well, I think that after the incredible rains of last fall and the snow this winter, we must be assured that the draught is over for 2011.
I am just thinkin' that there are twenty-eight days until the first day of spring - if only that assured that the snow would stop falling and piling up! With the way things are going this season, I will not get my hopes up too high too soon. I will only hope that earth in my yard will be green by June 1 ... ... ...
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