I may not have built a boat all by my damn self*

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1. I’m so jealous of you folks and all the snow. We haven’t gotten more than a few inches at a time over the last three years. Ding dang global warming…

   • You’re more than welcome to come here and take some of mine.

2. Snowblower? Or shovel?

   • Shovel.

     • Dayum, that’s awesome. This stuff is back-breaking.

     • Well-done. I haven’t taken the shovel out yet… letting the snowblower do what it can and leaving everything else to melt.

3. If you have a boat, you didn’t build that.

   (You knew somebody was going to say it.)

   • So that means even though the Doc has a shovel, he didn’t dig out all that snow?

     • “If you had a bad back and now you can shovel a walkway, you had a great chiropractor.”

     • He shares the glory with the workers who manufactured the shovel, with the lumberjacks who made the wood part of the handle, with the miners who extracted metal ores for the shovel part,* with the truckers who delivered the shovel to the warehouse and the retail outlet, with the store clerk who took the money and made change for the shovel Russell bought, with the people who manufactured the car Russell drove in, with the taxpayers who subsidized the road on which Russell drove, with the person way back when who invented the shovel, with the weather patterns that dumped the snow that gave Russell the opportunity to he might not have had to shovel the snow, with the internet and the League blog that gave him the forum to post his picture of the job that “he” did,…..

       *My vocab ain’t so great.

       • Seriously, Russell,

         Good job. I hope you and the family are safe and warm.

4. I’m wondering how a small MAPP gas torch would work for that.

5. That’s a lot of snow. The Critter could make some awesome snow people.

6. I wish we had snow like that.

   Oh the snow forts I could build with the kiddo…

7. He takes too much snow on his shovel at one time, and lifts it too high!

   • You’re still going on about this? Just be glad I shoveled the path for you before you got here.

     • Is that who I think it is?!?!

       • Who else do I know who would pontificate about the proper way to shovel snow? (I must grudgingly admit I would probably have been screwed trying to shovel the Better Half’s car out without him.)

         • I actually just sort of assumed the Better Half was completely imaginary up until now.

         • Whoops. I should clarify that the gentlemen who commented supra is not, in fact, the Better Half. I promise (and can independently verify!) that the Better Half exists, but he considers my interest in blogging perplexing, and is a sporadic reader at best.

           No, Heading Out may or may not be another member of my immediate family.

         • “No, Heading Out may or may not be another member of my immediate family.”

           Is the Critter old enough to read and type?

         • Zazzy was believed to me made up by most of my colleagues until very recently. When I worked in NY, she lived in DC. When I moved to DC, she conveniently got deployed to Kuwait. When we moved back to NY, suddenly she was working night shifts.

           It didn’t help that I would bring friends to community events when she couldn’t attend… which was always.

         • At least she didn’t live in Canada.

         • I kind of assume Kazzy has a right and wrong way to shovel snow (considering his views on dishwashers and folded t-shirts).

         • Jonathan,

           I actually have less experience with shoveling than either of the other two. And now that I have graduated to snow blowing, which I am effective at but hardly experienced, I am still learning the ropes myself.

           That doesn’t mean I don’t severely judge my neighbors’ efforts.

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