First Ice, Now Snow

Woo Hoo! (NOT) Winter is here... and decided to come with a vengeance. Last weekend, we got snow followed by rain, which then turned to ice. I spent 3 days scraping, chipping, and carrying ice by the shovelfull to the front and backyards because there's no other place to put it. Have I mentioned the ice was an inch thick? Talk about fun stuff! Yesterday on my lunch hour, I finally finished the last of the ice. And what happens?

Last night, Old Man Winter (or Mother Nature... Haven't figured out who, yet) decided that we needed a little more of the white stuff. I woke up this morning to 6" inches of snow covering everything. My neighbor was up with his snowblower at 5am so I felt obligated to crawl out of my warm bed and go out to shovel. I cleared the steps and after 2 shovelfulls of the driveway, I decided to call someone to plow it. Before he got there, the neighbor did the incline part of my drive with his snowblower (bless his heart!). After the driveway was plowed, I went out and "cleaned up" the parts he couldn't get with a plow. I figure at this rate, with all the shoveling I'm doing, I should look pretty buff by spring. LOL