Well we got our first real snow out of that last batch. Even if I hadn’t seen it I could have told you from the roar of the snow blowers and the scrape of the plow.
While I was growing up we had a very difficult driveway to shovel. It was made of gravel stuck together with asphalt and the gravel made it impossible slide your shovel along so it was always a pain in the ass.
Still I considered it a good snowfall if the twin piles at the end of the driveway were high enough to make good forts out of.
We’d do the whole snowman thing too, but it wasn’t like we ever had the kind of winters that you could put it up in November and say goodbye in March.
Usually you don’t get really permanent cover until mid January and by the end of February it was warming up again, at least to the extent you’d get a couple of good rains that would turn everything kind of crusty and grey as all those asphalt covered pieces of gravel that you’d scraped out of the driveway and thrown in the snow piles peeked out again.
Used to love the first mow in the spring too. Don’t stand in front of the grass exhaust unless you want to get stung with chunks of gravel.
