The Plow

I was up at 5;25 this morning, not because I wanted to be but because I knew my alarm was going to sound off in 20 minutes and I couldn't get back to sleep.  No, I was up knowing that I had to put on my snow plow pants and go for it.  We had a networking group scheduled to use the upstairs conference room this morning at 7 and with all the snow fall from last night I knew there would be some work ahead of me in order to clear the front entry to the building.  Holy cow, that was a lot of snow.  That was a lot of snow in our driveway that I needed to clear just to get out of it.  Anyhow, I got to the shop, shoveled like crazy, got things set up and ready to go upstairs with the heat on, the lights on, water even.  Well, turns out that no body showed up.  I can only guess that they cancelled the meeting because of weather.  I had to run home so I could get the kids ready for school.  We managed to get everyone to school on time.  I continued to shovel snow around the neighborhood but the real treat is when I got to drive the snow plow to clear our parking lot when I got back to work.  There are some things that I consider fun to do and driving that snow plow certainly falls into that category.  The plowing wasn't done.  Turns out that the 8th Ward is in charge of snow removal this month at our building.  We were invited to stop by and help with removal.  Once again I pressed forward and did my duty, yep maybe calling me "the plow" is fitting on a day like today...