On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:43:51 -0500, Bruce wrote:

Harry wrote:
.....awwwwwwww.

Plowguy called, county hasn't bothered to clear the snow from the
secondary roads that branch off the main state road out here...and
he's not sure he can get through today. If not, then tomorrow...for
sure. He says.

The road leading from the unplowed secondary state road to the
unplowed subdivision road that leads to our little private road hasn't
been plowed, and our little private bit of road never gets plowed.
Neighbor across the street has been out all morning with his
snowblower...three more days of it and he might have his driveway
cleared, if he doesn't fall over from hypothermia or a heart attack
first. :) I don't know where he thinks he's going...

Every bird in the county is in our backyard, or so it seems. I toss
out a small bucket of seed every couple of hours. Lots of pretty birds
stop by for a feed and in doing so keep the housecats entertained.

The local escort services don't use snowmobiles? Keep on cranking...

I have a neighbor who is a contractor. We were on the dead end of
gravel road. He has all his equipment trucks, machines, does anything
electrical from wall sockers to powerlines.He paved the street the
four blocks to the county blacktop. We get three foot drifts in the
drive when it snows four inches and his guy has been plowing our drive
for free for years. With a skid loader. He doesn't mind if my 19 ducks
hang out in his Canada geese infested ponds. The gardening got to the
point where we needed own loader, so I got the wife a nice John Deere,
26 horse, loader, five foot rotary mower, three foot rototiller.
Hydrostatic four wheel drive. cuts the snow down to the point where
the4wd Lincoln Navigator can cope with it. That last has 225 000
miles on it. Not expensive if you buy it used and put 300 000 miles on
it.The second engine should get us to 300 000. Cool motor, 300 hp V8
32 valves four cams. On a ****ing truck, four cams. Thing is really a
Ford F-150 with more sheet metal and and leather seats. Wife loves it
and we can afford the 14.5 mpg around town and long trips both. Now we
can get out of the drive earlier and with the snow piled where we
want. We are going to redo the gravel driveway this summer. John
Deere rules. [They have a 48 row planter and a 12 wheel tractor!!!] We
have the snow problem beat, thanks to up to date equipment. Thanks be
for good luck.

Casady