Outdoor time provided for me

[Cotton1]

New Years Day. I shoveled lots of heavy wet snow. It was hard to throw or to push. The day before I had literally taken down some snow banks to give me room to put the snow that was coming.
It was too much. I am 60 and pushed at full capacity for nearly two hours without breaks. I don't know how to describe it to folks who have never dealt with a foot of wet snow.
Anyway it wrecked my day and I wasn't really right again until today. Dizzy, rubber legged, sick to stomach . Maybe it was partly a bug or the fact that I pushed myself to remain active the next day but damn! One of those days I could have gone back to bed right after I got up!
Anyway my family had some tough comments for me and I'm good, but did the r/r thing today and finally feel better. i live in a small town and doctor used to drive by my house and one time I went to see him and he told me to quit shoveling.
It's some of the best exercise I get in the winter, but I guess it wouldn't hurt me to break the snow blower out once in awhile. No fool like an old fool, right.

Ive never shoveled snow. The hardest thing I ever did was when I was 17. I loaded 100 lb bags of fertilizer into the cropdusters at my grandparents. The cropduster lands dirt flying everywhere. I climbed on the wing and someone else handed me the bag and Id empty it into the airplanes hopper. That was in 100+ Arkansas heat. I couldnt do that these days. Hope you recover well.

[Cotton1]

New Years Day. I shoveled lots of heavy wet snow. It was hard to throw or to push. The day before I had literally taken down some snow banks to give me room to put the snow that was coming.
It was too much. I am 60 and pushed at full capacity for nearly two hours without breaks. I don't know how to describe it to folks who have never dealt with a foot of wet snow.
Anyway it wrecked my day and I wasn't really right again until today. Dizzy, rubber legged, sick to stomach . Maybe it was partly a bug or the fact that I pushed myself to remain active the next day but damn! One of those days I could have gone back to bed right after I got up!
Anyway my family had some tough comments for me and I'm good, but did the r/r thing today and finally feel better. i live in a small town and doctor used to drive by my house and one time I went to see him and he told me to quit shoveling.
It's some of the best exercise I get in the winter, but I guess it wouldn't hurt me to break the snow blower out once in awhile. No fool like an old fool, right.

Wait! I just read this again. You have a snowblower? Dust it off, my friend!

[donttread]

Ive never shoveled snow. The hardest thing I ever did was when I was 17. I loaded 100 lb bags of fertilizer into the cropdusters at my grandparents. The cropduster lands dirt flying everywhere. I climbed on the wing and someone else handed me the bag and Id empty it into the airplanes hopper. That was in 100+ Arkansas heat. I couldnt do that these days. Hope you recover well.

When I worked at a lumber yard in my youth we'd sometimes have to offload a whole tandem load of blocks by hand. That flat out sucked. I was did so with a pretty decent mason who was also a binge drinker and so drunk at the time the pile of blocks he made almost fell on his sorry ass.. Good times in drunksville!

[donttread]

Wait! I just read this again. You have a snowblower? Dust it off, my friend!

That's how my wife shovels. I shovel like a man. LOL. At this rate maybe like a dead man!

[Cotton1]

That's how my wife shovels. I shovel like a man. LOL. At this rate maybe like a dead man!

Yes, be careful. Even us fine specimens of men as you and I have to exercise restraint, but only on occasion, as we know

[Captdon]

Youd get a real kick out of us Southerners in the winter. Forecast calls for half an inch of snow and the grocery stores sell out of things like milk ( like its never going to thaw lol) , people driving off in ditches. Thats before the snow hits. Its a real riot once it starts.

The further south, the worse it gets.