One-Liner Wednesday – My Father’s Advice

We had our first snowstorm of the season this past Saturday. During the night, after about five inches (12.7cm) of light puffy snow fell, the storm changed to freezing rain. The result was a compressed pile of heavy wet snow with a nice crunchy top.

Since we had to leave the house at 8:00am on Sunday, I started snow blowing a few minutes before 6:00 am. Fortunately, my snow blower has a headlight and a cup holder. By ten of eight, the job was done, and the editor released the hound. A few minutes’ worth of play and we were back inside. My wife asked how my back was (it had been bothering me earlier in the week). I said it was fine:

“I let the machine do the work.”

“How unlike you”

She was joking but the statement is true enough, I can still hear my father giving me that advice every time I used a hand or power tool. I’ve passed that advice onto our daughter, but I still have to repeat it silently to myself. The snow blower will chew through just about anything Mother Nature lays down, but it’s hard to simply walk behind the machine without pushing or otherwise trying to help.

This post is part of Linda G. Hill’s fun weekly series One-Liner Wednesday. If you have a one-liner, I’d encourage you to join in on the fun. You can follow this link participate and to see the one-liners from the other participants.

The gallery includes pictures during the storm and during / after the clean-up. Click on any image to start a slide show. And, there’s a little Maddie video at the bottom.

She loves the snow. She would have stayed out in the storm all night.

“It snowed – Let’s play ball”

The first snow is always pretty. It started as light fluffy stuff.

This is why I made barn doors. I’ll slide this open and let the tool do the work.

Driving out of the shed

Very sticky snow

I was going to decorate that tree today.

Looks like I might be the first person out here.

Everything is covered at sunrise

Sticky snow

The snow is done but the clouds are hanging around

Shadows on the snow

The sun is starting to do its work

“It snoooooooooooowed!”

I think this is her way of saying she approves of the job that I did.

Mt. Maddie isn’t very tall but she still likes the view.

After a hard day of play