Noisy snow, with a meme

[gerisullivan]

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How to make a gerisullivan

Ingredients: 1 part jealousy 5 parts self-sufficiency 5 parts instinct

Method: Blend at a low speed for 30 seconds. Add a little cocktail umbrella and a dash of fitness

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Today's dash of fitness involved shoveling only half rather than all of the concrete portion of my driveway. (Plowguy does the 275-foot gravel part, I only have the last 15-20 feet or so.) Why only half? It wasn't so much the half-inch of ice on top, but the density of the 5.5 inches below. Look, ma, no chest pains. That's always a good idea. But even the time I've been putting in on the elliptical exerciser hasn't yet been enough to stop that kind of shoveling from quite thoroughly winding me. Huff. Huff. Whew.

I think it was the loudest snow shoveling I've ever done. Throwing around slabs of ice will do that, especially when they hit other slabs of ice rather than thumping onto dense snow.

The sand on the hilly part of the driveway appears to be doing its thing, though I haven't yet put it to the test by actually trying to drive up it. That adventure comes tomorrow, when I'm heading down to Hartford to see Bill Morrissey in concert for the first time. I'm looking forward to it.

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Seems about right...

[athenais.livejournal.com]

How to make a athenais

Ingredients: 1 part success 5 parts self-sufficiency 3 parts instinct

Method: Combine in a tall glass half filled with crushed ice. Serve with a slice of emotion and a pinch of salt. Yum!

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Snow & Stuff

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

Remember the old gray house that Sue Grandys owned on 38th & Lyndale (I believe Ken & Giovanna are still living there now). The backyard had a huge... well, for want of a better word, parking lot that was about five cars wide. One day (it may have been after the Halloween blizzard) while shoveling I paused, looked around, and thought, "Hmm... If they dropped the bomb right now, I wonder if I'd get to see the snow melt before I got incinerated. It'd kinda be like an early spring..."

I told this to a friend of mine who looked at me with disbelief & said, "David, you THOUGHT too much as a child."

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Yup, no chest pains is a very good idea. No pains running down your left arm, or in your left armpit, ditto. (I've been working moderately hard/steadily (between rains) moving many potted plants from the front & side areas to the back yard, so the tree-removers can work in the front RSN, & haul away a monstrous stack of old lumber. When they've finished in the front & side, I'll spend about a week moving stuff into the front, temporarily, so they can work in the back. Maybe more than a week, even if good weather prevails (not that greater-than-average rain isn't welcome & good when it comes in reasonble doses), because I stop each day when my body tells me to stop.) Listen to your body, and be careful to differentiate between minor muscular twinges and cardiac-muscle complaints.