Day 2-78 -- The end of an upleasant relationship

Well -- spring arrives in less than 24 hours meaning winter will be leaving. While Mother Nature is really in charge, there will be few sad feelings to see the backside of this winter season. Granted it began slowly and kindly, but the honeymoon period ended and the real personality came through with a vengeance. These last three snow storms -- well two storms and one major set of snow squalls to be technically correct <smile> -- have definitely extinguished any tiny spark of good will.

Two hours were spent shovelling today to clear the 18 inch path to the car and then to try to dig out around the car. Tomorrow I will need to clear the snow off the car and attempt to move it out of the driveway. It had been buried to the hood in a nasty drift around three sides of the vehicle. The backhoe just cleared out the end of the driveway -- all the stuff from the sky, the sidewalk plough and the street plough. The pile on the front lawn is closing in on 10 feet. Tomorrow the same backhoe with a different driver will clear the full length of the driveway to the back porch. This will enable the roofers to come to clear major snow accumulation and then use cables to melt through the ice dams so there is a place for water to run as the rain and above freezing temperatures of next week arrive. Hopefully, this will stop the water infiltrating the bathroom and kitchen. I will admit that I've had trouble getting my head around how much snow is really out there. In those famous words from a favourite movie, "Inconceivable!"

The selection today is my farewell to winter. The lyrics, of course, likely mean something different, but the relationship with this season is so over. Let's hope Spring is kinder and less eventful. I'm not in a rush for warmer weather, just putting a wish out into the universe -- a wish for fewer and smaller precipitation events along with a slow melt with little flooding. Spring should understand that any new relationship will be tentative due to just leaving a less than perfect one. Enjoy!

My Give A Damn's Busted -- Jo Dee Messina