[Magdalen] Snowing now

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Several branches came down. Mostly it was the toss-em-outa-the-way variety,
but a big widowmaker hung over our driveway.

Yee hah!  I finally got to use the neat long-handled shears I got a few
years ago with the rationale, "I kin yooz these someday."  Thet dey haz
arrived.

Huge branch hanging out there, and we needed to get out so we could go to
our obligatory dinner at our favorite restaurant.  These guys, so far as I
can see (disclosure: I have 20/400 vision), do not close.

Took them long-handled shears and just started cutting what I could reach.
Two-inch-thick branches? It was like cutting through butter.

So we still have that branch hanging (it will not come down anytime soon. I
gave it a few good tugs), so we'll have to get a tree trimmer to come by
and get the rest of it.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Dorothy Collman <dac7792 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The sun is shining brightly now, with temperature in mid 30’s. I’m about
> 15 minutes NW of I-95, the rain/snow cutoff line in PA for this storm.
> Wednesday afternoon, during a lull in the snow, I decided to clear the ½”
> of slush from in front of my garage. I was afraid that if the temperature
> dropped below freezing during the night I would be faced with ½” of ice
> which I couldn’t have dealt with. I used a plastic snow shovel with a crack
> in it from some lifting in a prior year. Rather than doing any lifting, I
> simply pushed the slush to the side of the driveway, and tried to improve
> the runoff point where the mid-driveway puddle drains to one side. After
> clearing what I could, leaving a thin layer of slush, I sprinkled a some
> salt over it. Thursday morning it was mostly dry and quite free of ice.
>
> - - -
> Dorothy Collman
> Home: DottieAnne at aol.com
> List: dac7792 at gmail.com
>
>
> > On Nov 27, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > we are not used to significant exercise using upper body strength.  A
> shovel full of snow weighs a fair few pounds.
>
>