Today I was shovelling snow. Not once but twice and the morning is not yet finished. I have little doubt that it will snow some more and I will shovel it. Yesterday was the same and tomorrow seems to offer more of the same.
I realised that Australians could have difficulty understanding my problems with snow.
Snow and Lawn
Well to those Australians in Australia that might read this I draw the analogy to Lawn. Snow is like a lawn that can grow up to 40 cm overnight and 15 cm per hour is not unheard of. Unlike lawn it actively resists being driven on. Snow tires are obligatory and snow chains are a curse. The driveway is the centre of the battle. If you take the easy way out and drive on the snow you will compact it to ice. Ice is to snow what trees are to lawn.
The tools of trade are
- Snow shovels 3 or 4 in strategic locations.
- A snow witch. I will find a Photo. A cross between a sled and a snow shovel.
- A snow blower expensive piece of machinery with a briggs & stratton motor.
- Warm Clothes with special requirements for using the blower on windy days.
- Good gloves
- Good Boots
- Goggles!
- Salt
- Alarm clock
- Assorted tools for freeing the car from its snowy sheath.
Consider what it would be like when a sub zero gale is blowing that lot in you face on a dark and cold morning before breakfast....
Snow witch (as translated from the local dialect)
What to do with the snow
Well you will get fined if you put it on the road. Fit it in the garden as best you can with some for the neighbours garden as well.
Watch out for the snow plough he will leave a metre high wall of ice in front of your driveway.
Not far from here in 1908
1 comment:
Thank you a much better appreciation of snow relating it to lawn :) from an aussie whose lawn is parched from the searing heat!
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