The day can't start more HELLishly than one with snow that's scheduled to arrive just as people absolutely must be leaving their houses for work and other exotic pleasures. We expected this one to be just another "dry" inch or so, which would hopefully blow right off with the backpack leaf blower doing the job. And so it was. But I literally was blowing it just ahead of Kristi and Nathan in her car (he was driving her to her office)... all the way down the 500-foot driveway... the result being that they didn't have to drive over any of it and pack it down into ice. Not one bit. Not one little tire track. I got them all the way to the road, and cleaned up a little more on my way back up to the house. All the while, it was still falling, but definitely lightening up. I finished the whole driveway and our little sidewalk, and we probably have the cleanest, most passable driveway in town right about now. Everything else is solid white (I think we got more than one inch), while we have here what looks like barely a dusting. Fingers crossed, knock wood, etc.
