11 January 2017
Story #844
R. Linda:
Ah, yes, another winter in New Hampshire! I'd hoped we'd have a mild winter like last year, with very little snow and unseasonably high temperatures, but no, Old Man Winter has arrived and he's here to stay, it looks like.
So far, it snows every other day, which means Gabe has to shovel, which is not me favourite thing to do, as you well know. Add to this that the only way to get telly programmes is via a satellite dish. This "dish" business can wreak havoc when the weather is fierce. Case in point, anytime there is a lot of wind (and where I live, it is windy all the time), the signal digitises on the telly screen and freezes, it does the same if there is heavy rain or snow. Cloudy weather be the worst; the signal all but disappears if there are dense clouds or fog, of which we get a fair amount of both, usually at the same time.
Adding to this awful situation, our local news station, which partners with ABC, decided not to pay the satellite company the fees it demands. The satellite company, therefore, shut off the local and ABC stations. We had no clue what was going on in New Hampshire! More upsetting to Mam, at least, was that she could not watch The Bachelor! No, all we could watch was NBC or CBS, which had nothing my family liked to watch except the occasional 48 Hours programme or Lester Holt giving the news. We did have all the Boston stations, which refer to New Hampshire as "up there" with a wave of the hand. It's as if we are aliens, and, well, not important enough to report our weather or anything else that might be of interest to those who live "up there." I tell ya!
So the other night we had almost 16" of snow. We had no idea it was coming because why? No news, in this case, is not good news. We were stuck watching the Boston stations, and O M G! You'd think Boston never had a snowstorm before. The two major networks preempted any sitcoms or crime programmes they might have had to broadcast live, as the snow was falling in Massachusetts, primarily in Boston and the Cape. Yes, R. Linda, live broadcasts of a reporter braving the howling winds in Sandwich, Mass. and another reporter measuring snow with a small ruler someplace else and we thought her snow totals were way off because she was measuring in snow drifts which prompted the in-studio anchors to declare Boston in the middle of a BLIZZARD!
I could remember me first winter in Boston and all that snow! I remember cross-country skiing on the common, and there was more snow than we were watching that night. If I wanted to watch the snow falling, I could go out in me yard. Geez Marie! Yes, boredom was setting in big time.
I'd almost say a visit from Weasil would have been welcome, but I won't go that far.
Anyway, with all the snow and our rather long driveway, I needed to get it shovelled. No way was I going to hand shovel a driveway that is almost a city block long! Me car plough had bit the dust before I moved. Here, I give you a remembrance picture of THAT.
Story #844
R. Linda:
Ah, yes, another winter in New Hampshire! I'd hoped we'd have a mild winter like last year, with very little snow and unseasonably high temperatures, but no, Old Man Winter has arrived and he's here to stay, it looks like.
So far, it snows every other day, which means Gabe has to shovel, which is not me favourite thing to do, as you well know. Add to this that the only way to get telly programmes is via a satellite dish. This "dish" business can wreak havoc when the weather is fierce. Case in point, anytime there is a lot of wind (and where I live, it is windy all the time), the signal digitises on the telly screen and freezes, it does the same if there is heavy rain or snow. Cloudy weather be the worst; the signal all but disappears if there are dense clouds or fog, of which we get a fair amount of both, usually at the same time.
Adding to this awful situation, our local news station, which partners with ABC, decided not to pay the satellite company the fees it demands. The satellite company, therefore, shut off the local and ABC stations. We had no clue what was going on in New Hampshire! More upsetting to Mam, at least, was that she could not watch The Bachelor! No, all we could watch was NBC or CBS, which had nothing my family liked to watch except the occasional 48 Hours programme or Lester Holt giving the news. We did have all the Boston stations, which refer to New Hampshire as "up there" with a wave of the hand. It's as if we are aliens, and, well, not important enough to report our weather or anything else that might be of interest to those who live "up there." I tell ya!
So the other night we had almost 16" of snow. We had no idea it was coming because why? No news, in this case, is not good news. We were stuck watching the Boston stations, and O M G! You'd think Boston never had a snowstorm before. The two major networks preempted any sitcoms or crime programmes they might have had to broadcast live, as the snow was falling in Massachusetts, primarily in Boston and the Cape. Yes, R. Linda, live broadcasts of a reporter braving the howling winds in Sandwich, Mass. and another reporter measuring snow with a small ruler someplace else and we thought her snow totals were way off because she was measuring in snow drifts which prompted the in-studio anchors to declare Boston in the middle of a BLIZZARD!
I could remember me first winter in Boston and all that snow! I remember cross-country skiing on the common, and there was more snow than we were watching that night. If I wanted to watch the snow falling, I could go out in me yard. Geez Marie! Yes, boredom was setting in big time.
I'd almost say a visit from Weasil would have been welcome, but I won't go that far.
Anyway, with all the snow and our rather long driveway, I needed to get it shovelled. No way was I going to hand shovel a driveway that is almost a city block long! Me car plough had bit the dust before I moved. Here, I give you a remembrance picture of THAT.
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| RIP |
I had gone through two junky cars with that plough. It served me well, but now what was I to do? It took me all of an hour to think up a new method of snow removal. IDEA! I had got O'Hare an all-terrain bike for Christmas, and so I found it worked great in snow. I just needed to add a little something to it, and I'd be in business. Ok, a lot of something.
This is what I came up with:
This is what I came up with:
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| Yes, works for me! |
I was able to solder a snow shovel to the bike. Did it work? You betcha! See here:
Gabe
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| Took me three days, but I did it! The only drawback to this is that O'Hare was upset with me. So was Tonya and . . . Mam . . . even Guido had a few choice words. I did such a good job there, there's no way I can get the shovel off the bike. Which means I have to go buy him another one. BUT the good news is I have a bike-plough now! |
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Genius yes, sane no, LMAO.
ReplyDeleteonly you would invent something that crazy lolololol but if it works why not?
ReplyDeleteROFLMAO necessity is the mother of invention! You pedal to move the snow AND keep warm! So YES to the genius!
ReplyDeleteHey. Whatever does the job! Lol
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