Yesterday was a good day...
As I was driving home from an AMAZING buying trip to Rossville, IN (awesome final touches for the Tailgate Show!)~ I saw a number of people attempting to shovel their driveways and sidewalks.
I laughed as I drove by a guy with a hay fork, another with a sledge hammer and another with what looked to be a garden weasel :)
My laugh quickly subsided when I thought about how we were going to pull a 15 foot trailer into OUR ice and snow covered driveway???
It's all fun and games when I'm driving a four wheel drive SUV, casually pulling up to my garage, while the neighbors are shoveling away in 5 degree weather. However, backing up a trailer and loading it on our skating rink of a driveway is another story.
UGHHHH~ choosing to NOT shovel after this past batch of snow and ice was a BAD IDEA.
Since Doug and I do not own any of the aforementioned ice and snow removal devices... we got out our shovels and got to work....
I had a brilliant idea to hose down the driveway.... however, when Doug went to pick up the hose that he left out in the snow all winter... it cracked in half~ GREAT! So onto plan B~ buckets of hot water... another really brilliant idea of mine.... that is NOT effective AT ALL.
I'm sure we looked like total morons~ and were a source of entertainment for our very smart neighbors who actually shoveled their driveways properly...
20 minutes after trying various methods of breaking up the ice with garden shovels, a very nice guy in a big manly truck with a plow on the front passed by...
He looked at us as he drove by, then backed up, rolled down his window and asked us if he could help.
Woo HOOOOO!
Apparently this guy had driven by our house a couple of days ago and laughed at Doug as he whipped the 4Runner into 4WD and bounced over the mounds of snow :)
After several expert maneuvers, our driveway was clear!
AWESOME!
Thanks guy in the big manly truck!
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