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Old 02-13-2008, 11:26 PM   #1 (permalink)
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In honor of all the snow SO MANY of you have been having I thought I would share this.....I just wondered, "Do you know this guy?" I know I sure do.

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Diary of a Snow Shoveler

December 8 6:00 PM

It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by
the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow!


December 9

We woke to a beautiful blanket of crystal white snow covering every inch of the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Can there be a more lovely place in the whole world? Moving here was the best idea I've
ever had!
Shoveled for the first time in years and felt like a boy again. I did both our driveway and the sidewalks.
This afternoon the snowplow came along and covered up the sidewalks and closed in the driveway, so I got
to shovel again. What a perfect life!


December 12

The sun has melted all our lovely snow. Such a disappointment! My neighbor tells me not to worry-
we'll definitely have a white Christmas. No snow on Christmas would be awful! Bob says we'll have so much snow by the end of winter, that I'll never want to see snow again. I don't think that's possible. Bob is such a nice man, I'm glad he's our neighbor.

December 14
Snow, lovely snow! 8 inches last night. The temperature dropped to -20. The cold makes everything
sparkle so. The wind took my breath away, but I warmed up by shoveling the driveway and sidewalks. This is the life! The snowplow came back this afternoon and buried everything again. I didn't realize I would have to do quite this much shoveling, but I'll certainly get back in shape this way. I wish I wouldn't huff and puff so.


December 15

20 inches forecast. Sold my van and bought a 4x4 Blazer. Bought snow tires for the wife's car and 2 extra shovels. Stocked the freezer. The wife wants a wood stove in case the electricity goes out. I think that's silly. We aren't in Alaska, after all.

December 16
Ice storm this morning. Fell on my ass on the ice in the driveway putting down salt. Hurt like hell. The
wife laughed for an hour, which I think was very cruel.

December 17

Still way below freezing. Roads are too icy to go anywhere. Electricity was off for 5 hours. I had to pile the blankets on to stay warm. Nothing to do but stare at the wife and try not to irritate her. Guess I should've bought a wood stove, but won't admit it to her. God I hate it when she's right. I can't believe I'm freezing to death in my own livingroom.

December 20
Electricity is back on, but had another 14 inches of the damn stuff last night. More shoveling! Took all day. The damn snowplow came by twice.
Tried to find a neighbor kid to shovel, but they said they're too busy playing hockey. I think they're lying.
Called the only hardware store around to see about buying a snow blower and they're out. Might have another shipment in March. I think they're lying. Bob says I have to shovel or the city will have it done and bill me. I think he's lying.

December 22
Bob was right about a white Christmas because 13 more inches of the white shit fell today, and it's so cold, it probably won't melt till August. Took me 45 minutes to get all dressed up to go out to shovel and then I had to piss. By the time I got undressed, pissed and dressed again. I was too tired to shovel. Tried to hire Bob who has a plow on his truck for the rest of the winter, but he says he's too busy. I think the asshole is lying.

December 23
Only 2 inches of snow today. And it warmed up to 0. The wife wanted me to decorate the front of the house this morning. What is she, nuts?!!
Why didn't she tell me to do that a month ago? She says she did but I think she's lying.

December 24
6 inches - Snow packed so hard by snowplow, I broke the shovel. Thought I was having a heart attack. If I ever catch the son of a bitch who drives that snow plow, I'll drag him through the snow by his balls and beat him to death with my broken shovel. I know he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then he comes down the street at a 100 miles an hour and throws snow all over where I've just been! Tonight the wife wanted me to sing Christmas carols with her and open our presents, but I was too busy watching for the damn snowplow.

December 25
Merry f---ing Christmas! 20 more inches of the damn slop tonight - Snowed in. The idea of shoveling makes my blood boil. God, I hate the snow!
Then the snowplow driver came by asking for a donation and I hit him over the head with my shovel. The wife says I have a bad attitude. I think she's a fricking idiot. If I have to watch "It's A Wonderful Life" one more time, I'm going to stuff her into the microwave.

December 26
Still snowed in. Why the hell did I ever move here? It was all HER idea.
She's really getting on my nerves.

December 27
Temperature dropped to -30 and the pipes froze; plumber came after 14 hours of waiting for him, he only charged me $1,400 to replace all my pipes.

December 28
Warmed up to above -20. Still snowed in. The BITCH is driving me crazy!!!

December 29
10 more inches. Bob says I have to shovel the roof or it could cave in. That's the silliest thing I ever heard. How dumb does he think I am?


December 30

Roof caved in. I beat up the snow plow driver, and now he is suing me for a million dollars, not only for the beating I gave him, but also for trying to shove the broken snow shovel up his ass. The wife went home to her mother.
Nine more inches predicted.

December 31
I set fire to what's left of the house. No more shoveling.

January 8
Feel so good. I just love those little white pills they keep giving me. Why am I tied to the bed?
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That was a good laugh !!!

..... but seriously - does it really get that bad with the snow where you guys live?

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Holy crap - I laughed so hard i woke DH up...and he's upstairs. In some places it IS like this, and I thank God it hasn't been this way here this year....
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That was a good laugh !!!

..... but seriously - does it really get that bad with the snow where you guys live?

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Honey...you have NO IDEA! In October of 2006 (when the leaves had still not fallen off the trees) we had 2 feet of snow in less than 12 hours. The trees all collapsed under the weight and the entire Western half of our state looked like a war zone. We were without power for over a week! (Liz was pregnant then. Cooped up in a house with no power and a pregnant woman was NOT really all that much fun. Also, we used the grill to heat water, make food, etc., and everything tasted charred.)

I like the snow, but I DO NOT want to go through that again!

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Thanks for the post. When I moved back to Michigan I read that to DH, he being from KY. He thought it was funny until he started to live the joke.
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Honey...you have NO IDEA! In October of 2006 (when the leaves had still not fallen off the trees) we had 2 feet of snow in less than 12 hours. The trees all collapsed under the weight and the entire Western half of our state looked like a war zone. We were without power for over a week! (Liz was pregnant then. Cooped up in a house with no power and a pregnant woman was NOT really all that much fun. Also, we used the grill to heat water, make food, etc., and everything tasted charred.)

I like the snow, but I DO NOT want to go through that again!

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Where I come from in South Africa it snows a little bit (in the Drakensberg mountains) but just enough to make it look pretty and over here in the UK I haven't really experienced much more than sleet... you poor guys!!!

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Thanks for the post. When I moved back to Michigan I read that to DH, he being from KY. He thought it was funny until he started to live the joke.
You're welcome, Kim. You guys must be getting pounded with snow up there!! With as bad as it is down here I can't even imagine how much snow is in the U.P.

When I first read this I laughed SO HARD! I gave it to DH asking him, "Do you know this guy?" Ohhhh, yeah...he most certainly DOES know him!! He is from New Mexico and he has never taken kindly to the snow plow guys.
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So far in Iowa we have had over 40" of snow this year. It's been the worst winter this decade and may go back many more years if it keeps going like this! Plus it's been so cold nothing melts, ice, snow and more snow... it sucks!
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Honey...you have NO IDEA! In October of 2006 (when the leaves had still not fallen off the trees) we had 2 feet of snow in less than 12 hours. The trees all collapsed under the weight and the entire Western half of our state looked like a war zone. We were without power for over a week! (Liz was pregnant then. Cooped up in a house with no power and a pregnant woman was NOT really all that much fun. Also, we used the grill to heat water, make food, etc., and everything tasted charred.)

I like the snow, but I DO NOT want to go through that again!

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We had an October like that too, Mike. Wasn't the same year, though. We ended up without power for 5 days. It was aweful!! I can't even imagine how much fun it would have been going through that pregnant. You have my sympathy!!
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So far in Iowa we have had over 40" of snow this year. It's been the worst winter this decade and may go back many more years if it keeps going like this! Plus it's been so cold nothing melts, ice, snow and more snow... it sucks!

Hey Dave, it sure is fun isn't it? I just heard the numbers last night for Western Michigan. We are over 85 inches this year. They said there has only been 5 years of recordings over 100 and they expect that we will probably be seeing that before the end of this winter. We've been having the same problem with it being so cold that the salt won't melt the snow on the roads. Not a pretty picture. Earlier this week they closed the interstate due to a 40 car pile up. So glad I wasn't on that road that day.
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