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    Outdoor time provided for me

    So over the last 4 days the good Lord and the Universe have provided me with 6 opportunities to shovel the driveway plus a little bit of knocking the snow banks back and roof raking.
    I over did it throwing chunks of ice and snow to move the margins of the driveway back today , but for the most part I think it's been good exercise and outdoor time for me.

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    We had a good dose of rain today. You don't need to shovel rain.

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    We had an incredible thunderstorm two days ago. Rain , more rain , lightning , strong wind. At noon it was almost like night outside. Not quite but " almost". I love storms.
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    More opportunity for me these past few days and now it's turned below zero. That usually shuts down the snow machine for a bit

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    So over the last 4 days the good Lord and the Universe have provided me with 6 opportunities to shovel the driveway plus a little bit of knocking the snow banks back and roof raking.
    I over did it throwing chunks of ice and snow to move the margins of the driveway back today , but for the most part I think it's been good exercise and outdoor time for me.
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    We had an incredible thunderstorm two days ago. Rain , more rain , lightning , strong wind. At noon it was almost like night outside. Not quite but " almost". I love storms.
    I've heard that lightning strikes charge the air with negative ions, which can lift your mood, and that's why a lot of people really like thunderstorms.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    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.
    I saw it once, it was sleet/freezing rain and the people couldn't even walk much less drive.

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    Sunny and warm today. As in 35 degrees. Maybe i can scrape down some of the snow base built up on top of the driveway. Don't worry if you don't know what that means , because only northerners will know

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    Sunny and warm today. As in 35 degrees. Maybe i can scrape down some of the snow base built up on top of the driveway. Don't worry if you don't know what that means , because only northerners will know
    I would leave it in the driveway. In that manner if an out of town visitor called to invite themselves over I could say "im sorry but you will have to wait. The snow is so bad you cant even get in and out of the driveway".
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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    So over the last 4 days the good Lord and the Universe have provided me with 6 opportunities to shovel the driveway plus a little bit of knocking the snow banks back and roof raking.
    I over did it throwing chunks of ice and snow to move the margins of the driveway back today , but for the most part I think it's been good exercise and outdoor time for me.

    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.

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