Another day of cleanup. I chose to spend only one hour shoveling the heavy wet stuff. I got the four sides around the car dug out, but chose to leave the piles on the car for another day. The temperature warmed a bit above freezing, so snow was dropping from the branches and wires as I shoveled. Rather than have a branch or ice fall onto the cleared off car, I left the foot or so of slush as a type of cushion. As I was gathering up the shovels and heading in, something large, hard and round fell onto the top of my head. It appears that one of the larger trees chose to drop a frozen snowball on me. I do have a distinct bump on the scalp, but it didn't break the skin. It hurt for a while, but doesn't hurt now.
I'll admit that when I first went out the door, in my head I heard the warnings given after ice storms -- not to walk under trees that might drop limbs or by large buildings that might drop ice. Yet, all that seemed to be falling was wet snow and water. Very little action in the area today -- I only heard a few pieces of large equipment in the distance. After supper was a sound that I'd dreaded -- a chainsaw. It lasted for a short while but I expect there will be more in that chorus over the next couple of days. I've heard that campus lost many trees, so the walk in tomorrow may look different than usual. I have planned a walk that takes me up walkways that are not tree lined, at least not on both sides of the road.
The song today contains a line or two about getting rid of pain that fit well with the headache that seems to have left. I would suggest that anyone trying this method might want to exercise it indoors rather than in the icy world outside my door <smile>. Enjoy!
Dance the Pain Away -- Benny Benassi ft. John Legend
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