[Magdalen] Snow in the Valley

[Jay Weigel]

Our neighbor up the hill came this afternoon and plowed our driveway. This
was a first for us, but another part of some cooperative acts, I believe.
This is the same neighbor who, when we had a tree fall in the road early
last fall, appeared at the door and asked if he could cut it up and take it
away. They burn wood for heat and will burn anything, he said. We said of
course, and he came within the hour and removed it. We offered him other
downed trees on the property, since we are not going to use them and were
going to have to pay to have them removed or do it ourselves. He and his
family have since taken away several. So today as a gesture of thanks, he
plowed our driveway. As I said to S/O. good deadfalls make good neighbors.

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 2:16 PM, ROGER STOKES <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> Tell it like it is, brother!
>
> Roger
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> ________________________________
>  From: Charles Wohlers <charles.wohlers at verizon.net>
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Sent: Sunday, 22 February 2015, 19:04
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Snow in the Valley
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> I'm in Mass., attending to the furnace here - and shoveling snow. The snow
> is around waist-high on me, which is about 3-1/2 feet of snow, never mind
> the huge piles thrown up by the plows. I usually would have daffodils &
> such poking their heads up within the next week, but I don't think that'll
> be happening this year.
>
> Only a couple dozen at church this AM, where our priest read this prayer
> which has been making the rounds:
>
> Almighty God, who made the green grass on the Fenway, the blue waters of
> Dorchester Bay and the tan sands on the Cape, we have a simple prayer:
> Enough with the snow already. Whatever mysterious point you're making about
> endurance, or patience or your own awesome power, we get it: we've endured,
> we're plenty patient and we get that you can do the snow thing. And we know
> that you know the old joke (since you know everything) about how if the
> Pilgrims landed in Florida first this part of the country would never have
> been settled, ha ha, but we love it here. We love the spring, especially on
> Boston Common. We love the Fall, especially in the suburbs. And we love the
> summer, especially on Cape Cod, on Cape Anne and on the South Shore. We
> love all those beautiful parts of your world. But we've had it with the
> snow. I mean, have you looked out my window? So we'd like to ask you to
> stop sending us the snow. And, just to be clear, when we say snow we also
> mean
>  freezing rain, sleet, black ice, any kind of flurries and that new
> creation of yours thundersnow, We promise we'll be good during Lent, we'll
> be kind to one another, and won't ask for another thing, at least until the
> Red Sox start to play. Amen.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> East Bridgewater, MA USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>