Oh, My Aching Back!

When the snow is this deep, even our wonderful neighbor, Grandpa H, can't get out with his little garden tractor.  So Chris and I started digging and digging.  To say we have a long driveway is an understatement when you are talking about a foot and a half of snow.  We share part of our driveway with two other neighbors and they were digging their way out, too.  We met at the shared portion and we worked together to clear the last of it.  Many hands and shovels make quicker work, and a snow blower helps, but it still was a lot of work!

Reading the left side of the yardstick...almost 19 inches.

Such a calm, beautiful, sunny morning after the blizzard conditions yesterday with very low visibility.

Leftover snow fort from the last snow storm.

You can't even see where the first two levels of the deck are.

Um, yeah....all that up to the crest has to be dug out.

When we made it to the top of our driveway (about noon) there were only a few footsteps on our road.  No vehicles have been through at all.  We can now get out of our driveway, but not any farther!

Looking back from the top of our drive towards the house:

Neighbor Sam pulling Ami.

Mission accomplished, driveway cleared, and we're headed in for lunch and heating pads on our backs.  Seriously, that was a LOT of heavy snow to clear!