A Plow and a Shovel

You know that I love a good snow storm.  At least I love the first storm of the year and probably the next few storms after that.  I don't know that my love for snow storms continues through April and definitely not in the month of May but I do enjoy a good snow storm.  I find great satisfaction in wielding a snow shovel and practicing the art of snow removal.  There is only one thing that I think I enjoy more than a snow shovel and that is the snow plow.  I get to use the plow from the hotel next door to plow the parking lot at the Brick House.  It is pure joy.  Today we had a few stalls before fully realizing that pure plow driven joy.  The truck was overheating and so I had to shut it down every now and again and let the engine cool.  There is something the matter with that old truck.  Hopefully it gets squared away because as good as I might be with a shovel, that parking lot is big and I might not get the entire thing shoveled prior to the snow actually melting. 

Anyhow, I shoveled yesterday morning and again last night when I got home.  I shoveled again this morning prior to leaving for work where I shoveled some more.  I was getting ready to head over to the church to go shovel there and Kevin Barrett was dropping off is step daughter for work and told me that he had just finished the church with his 4 wheeler.  Ahhh, the 4 wheeler with the plow, that sounds like fun.  I might need one of those some day.  If I had a spare several grand I might could get one but I don't so I will stick to the shovel.  Anyhow, didn't need to go over. 

I'm kind of a snow shoveling geek I suppose.  I drive around by myself but I carry two shovels in the back of the vehicle.  I guess I want to have a spare at the ready in case I break the first one.  My current rate of breaking snow shovels is actually quite low so my chances of actually needing the spare are minimal. Oh well, I'm prepared I guess.

Snow plows and shovels, a mans best friends on a day like today.  Well, that and a nice warm fire.  Who doesn't like a nice warm fire on a cold winters night?