Ice Capades

Snow sucks.

I've come to that conclusion after the latest 5 inch dumpage on my driveway. 

This morning my husband got the car stuck in a ditch....5 feet from our driveway!  He had pulled into our driveway, and then had to get out of the car to open the garage door.  When he tried to pull into the garage, the car could get no traction, so it couldn't move forward.  So my husband attempted to back the car back into the street so he could gain some momentum and try it again.  Unfortunately, the streets had not been plowed yet, so he couldn't see where the street ended and the ditch began.  Hence, stuck in the ditch...5 feet from our driveway.  Several hours and $75 later (Yikes!), the car once again rested peacefully in the garage.

While waiting for the very expensive tow truck to come pluck my husband's car from the ditch, I decided it would be a good use of my time to shovel the driveway.  Since it looked like I wouldn't be able to get to the gym today while waiting for said tow truck to arrive, I thought I could get my workout in the great out of doors.  Bad choice.  It was $#@*!ing cold out there!  And the wind kept blowing the snow in my face.  And under the 14 inches of snow in the driveway (we didn't shovel the last time it snowed, so there's been some accumulation) is a nice thick layer of ice.  An hour and half later the tow truck finally showed up and offered me a reprieve from my foray into manual labor.  I was so blessedly thankful.  My muscles were screaming by that time.  And the loudest, most perturbed muscle of all was my butt, which is still sore.

The driveway does look better now, though it has a strange, bumpy ridge of ice down the middle and on one side that may be there until April.  I'm okay with that though.  And now the UPS guy won't curse my name every time he shows up because I finally shoveled the stairs, too.  Though that also has a nice crunchy layer of ice as well.  Hope he holds on to the handrail. 

I wish the saying "I worked my butt off" were really true.  It would be nice to see a lusciously voluptuous bum instead of a chunky butt all due to my workout on the tundra.