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JJLehto 
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 Topic: The driveway won't shovel itself...
Posted: February 23 2008 at 23:49 |
 NaturalScience wrote:
JJLehto wrote:
NaturalScience wrote:
Eastern Montgomery County, about 20 min. NW of Philadelphia. |
Ah, I'm in Middletown (Lower Dauphin County) 9 miles outside of Harrisburg.
I must admit so far it's been a very light winter for snow. |
Ah, so you're at PSU Harrisburg. Always thought you were out at State College.
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Yea...I was going up there after my 2nd year, (like many do) but I....grew to like it here?? and have made so many friends I don't want to leave.
And not to get off topic..the snow has been dissapointng but the ice has been a pain to keep cleaning
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Padraic
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Posted: February 23 2008 at 23:27 |
JJLehto wrote:
NaturalScience wrote:
Eastern Montgomery County, about 20 min. NW of Philadelphia. |
Ah, I'm in Middletown (Lower Dauphin County) 9 miles outside of Harrisburg.
I must admit so far it's been a very light winter for snow. |
Ah, so you're at PSU Harrisburg. Always thought you were out at State College.
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JJLehto
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Posted: February 23 2008 at 15:15 |
NaturalScience wrote:
Eastern Montgomery County, about 20 min. NW of Philadelphia. |
Ah, I'm in Middletown (Lower Dauphin County) 9 miles outside of Harrisburg.
I must admit so far it's been a very light winter for snow.
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Posted: February 23 2008 at 13:17 |
I am very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very sorry, Peter. 
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Peter
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Posted: February 23 2008 at 13:04 |
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Padraic
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Posted: February 23 2008 at 08:43 |
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Eastern Montgomery County, about 20 min. NW of Philadelphia.
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JJLehto
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Posted: February 22 2008 at 19:14 |
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^^Where in PA are you?
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Padraic
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Posted: February 22 2008 at 17:21 |
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A light shovel day today...just had to push the snow really, wasn't too strenuous.
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Scapler
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Posted: February 22 2008 at 16:54 |
Snow, on the driveway? Where??
Oh, that's right, I live in Florida! 
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moreitsythanyou
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Posted: February 22 2008 at 16:39 |
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I just got in from shoveling myself.
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Posted: February 22 2008 at 15:52 |
I haven't got a driveway, a car or a shovel. And there's hardly any snow either. 
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JJLehto
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Posted: February 22 2008 at 15:47 |
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Luckilly, I don't have a driveway to shovel right now.
But I do need to dig my car out, but hey at least it's another snow day.
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Posted: February 21 2008 at 19:12 |
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I have to shovel every time it snows....... A large driveway worth (at least). 2-5 hours.
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Posted: February 21 2008 at 13:53 |
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We, verily, have made music as a ladder for your souls, a means whereby they may be lifted up unto the realm on high.. (Baha'u'llah)
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Posted: February 20 2008 at 12:47 |
 "OK Guys...you keep 'em busy while I puncture their tires".
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Utah Man
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Posted: February 20 2008 at 12:38 |
 "Help Me. I've fallen and I can't get up...
...a great big Grizzly visiting from the States pushed me over..."
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Posted: February 20 2008 at 12:22 |
Peter wrote:
we've had about three-four weeks of very cold temperatures (-20 to -30C), and my woodpile is in imminent danger of disappearing. I need a break soon! |
I don't know Peter - this time last year you were complaining it was too mild, now you're moaning it's too cold; some people, eh... As Judas Priest would say you're "never satisfied" (but if you play it backwards, the lyrics are "kill yourself, dude - it's really cool")
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On the plus side, though, apparently all of this unseasonable extreme cold has been good for Arctic ice conditions |
So therefore, hopefully really good for a couple of Brits to go all teary eyed & say "wow" a lot when watching the icebergs from a vantage point on The Rock in summer...
...with the obligatory beer, of course 
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Posted: February 20 2008 at 10:49 |
 There's Mr. Bear for you.
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ĦBeware of the Bee!
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Peter
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Posted: February 20 2008 at 08:57 |
Utah Man wrote:
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All I have done is shovel... shovel...shovel...with my bear hands |
Is "bear" hands a Canadian in-joke? |
Actually, I am Papa Bear, my wife...Mama Bear.
We caught Goldilocks in our home doing you know what...
so we forced her to shovel all the snow off the driveway...
then we ate her...
MMMmmmm...yummie
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 ! Poor Goldilox! Where's a heroic woodcutter when you need one? 
Well, I guess that if one lacks thumbs -- and consequently the ability to grip a shovel -- having the upper extremities of a large ursid would aid immensely in the shifting of snow....
(As for me, I clear my driveway with my BEER hands!) 
We had quite the dump of snow on Sunday night & Monday -- about a foot and a half, to you backward, non-metric Yanks & Brits. Man, I was out there for hours, and with only two beer left (Monday was a new holiday here in Ontario -- "Family Day" -- so the beer stores were closed.) Did you know that shoveling snow & hauling wood without beer is just (retch) WORK??? 
As it is now, my front yard is a veritable mountain. When I stand atop my snow pile (built by hand, in the ancient Egyptian manner -- though I lack the droves of slaves... send me some teen-aged metalhead striplings from the VR. I'll whip 'em into line!), I can almost reach the overhead power lines! Quite the view from up there, but the lack of oxygen soon forces me down to more human-friendly altitudes....
I simply cannot get the snow up there anymore -- the hill is too steep & lofty -- so now all snow from the drive has to be shifted to the back yard! I've had enough!
On top of that, we've had about three-four weeks of very cold temperatures (-20 to -30C), and my woodpile is in imminent danger of disappearing. I need a break soon!
On the plus side, though, apparently all of this unseasonable extreme cold has been good for Arctic ice conditions -- the sea ice has been coming back where it should, houses in the far north are not falling into melting permafrost, and the polar bears will be able to reach the seals via the ice. (Heck, they may soon just stroll down and reach me -- might be a good place for you to pick up a date, Utah! 
Well, that's all I can BEAR to write now -- I'm off to walk to work. (brrrrrr!)
Dreamed I was an Eskimo.....
I leave you with a picture of a city bus here, and one of my new neighbours:
Awwww! He wants a hug, Utah!
Edited by Peter - February 20 2008 at 09:03
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Utah Man
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Posted: February 19 2008 at 11:57 |
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