Snow Thoughts

S-Word, S-Word, S-Word!

I have some thoughts on snow, would you like to hear them?

1)      “Snow” is the original “S” word. 2) Snow in the mountains is good. 3) Snow in my driveway is not good. 4) Snow has my reaction built right into it—NO. Although, to be honest, my reaction would be spelled more like this: sNONONONONONONOw. Except that the end of the word would somehow look less like “now” and more like “never after December 25.”

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I survived The Snowpocalypse Power Outage of 2019—but only because of my inner MacGyver, my hoarder’s supply of candles, and my next-door neighbor’s tractor. I vowed I would I would buy both a generator and a snowblower. I even made myself and action-item list and posted it on my fridge—that’s how serious I was about my War on Snow.

Then spring came, and I started fiddling with my lawnmower, and building a fence, and playing with my flowers and before you know it—it was August.

In August, Costco sent me a notification that snowblowers were now on sale. “Sale” is probably my favorite four-letter “S” word. I read the specs, I read the reviews, I was suitably impressed. Look, electric start! Heated handle bar! Repositionable thingamajig! A cup holder! All for the low, low price of $$YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME$$$.

Still—a snowblower would make my snow shovel obsolete...and perhaps a snowblower in my garage would function along the same principle of bringing an umbrella to a Little League game? You know the principle, the bigger the umbrella you bring, the less likely it is you will have to use it.  I added the snowblower to my shopping cart and thought about it.

I thought about it so thoroughly that by the time I decided to pull the trigger and buy the dang thing the sale was over and the item was no longer available.

Fast forward to 2020—four days of snowfall, one broken snow shovel later...bet you’ll never guess which four-letter “S” word I’m thinking of now.