Am I Overdoing This?

Just wondering… am I over doing this?

12/29/12

1/16/13

2/8/13

Am I beating a dead horse?

Hipsta-Blizzard

Just using hipstamatic to help me procrastinate.

Shoveling

Given the choice between surgery without anesthetic and shoveling after two feet of snow…

I’d have to think about it.

Guess what wouldn’t start.

I’m six feet five inches tall. The drift over the mini van was at least two feet taller than I.

I did the unthinkable today. I shoveled the driveway without pulling either car into the street. How?

I used the garage! Today was the first major storm since we bought the house where the garage was clean enough to hide a car while I shoveled. It was a sublime experience (not really).

There are two heavenly moments when shoveling your driveway. One is obvious… its the moment you are finally finished. The other is more subtle. The other is that moment when you first break through the into the plowed road beyond the edge of the driveway. It’s a sweet moment.

Remember, if you have a fire hydrant on your property it is up to you to shovel it out so that any emergency personel who might need it can get to it. Don’t be the jack ass who thinks it’s the city/town’s job. Just do it.

I’m still trying to decide if shoveling would be preferable to surgery sans anesthesia.

Karma

Any positive energy that karma had banked up for me was just cashed in.

The snowblower won’t start. I grudgingly picked up the shovel and went to it. I was almost done digging out the first car when a guy driving a pickup with a plow came out of the blue and plowed out the huge snow bank at the end of our driveway. He didn’t stop, but he rolled down his window and said he hoped that would help.

In our house we have a new hero.

Karma is real, kids. Be nice to everyone. Always.

Snowmageddon 2013 Continued

After a night of continued heavy snow, we woke up to scenes like these…

Snowmageddon 2013

This is becoming a trend for me. Pictures of the street lights during snow storms. Granted I haven’t taken any pictures of a storm of this magnitude yet.

Stay warm and dry out there folks. Better yet, don’t leave the house!

It has Begun

Snowpocalypse 2013 is well under way.

Still not enough to completely bury the twigs in the yard, but the grass and the street are gone, and it has only just begun. It is really coming down out there.

The Blizzard of ’13

Today has a high potential of a tremendous amount of sucking from a meteorological perspective.

The forecasts are calling for one to two feet of snow today into tomorrow. Some are even saying it could be more than two feet. The initial estimates were for the crap to start falling from the sky this morning and continue all night. Now they are saying it won’t start until the afternoon. The local media hype is on super ultra mega overload. Supermarkets have been picked clean. Panic is everywhere.

Every year New England seems to go through this at least once. A storm is predicted and the news networks blow it up into some sort of world ending event, everyone freaks out, and then the storm fizzles. I’m not saying the storm today is going to fizzle, but it’s a blizzard. It’s going to suck. All of this is true, but it’s not worth the panic people are displaying.

Jen and I are both working from home today, and the kids had school canceled. All of this before a single flake fell. Again, I’m not saying the preparations are unnecessary, and I for one am going to be seriously thankful come 5:30 tonight when I don’t have to drive home.

I guess what I’m trying to say is… This is New England. We get snow. We get blizzards. Every single one of us has been through this a million times before. Get a grip, people. Stop acting like rookies and man up.

Here we see our front yard… nothing yet.

Sunrise Over Canobie Lake

The one upside to taking the kids to their father’s house before school in the morning is that sometimes we get a brief glimpse at the sun rising over Canobie Lake. This morning on the way there it was just barely above the trees and it looked spectacular, with the lake all covered in yesterday’s snow and all. After dropping the kids off I stopped for a photo op. It wasn’t as awesome as it had been five minutes before, but it was still an excellent view.

I tried getting a sunrise picture last week using my iPhone. This time I was better prepared and took my Nikon.

I will probably wait for Spring to try this one again, although the timing of the sunrise with the pre-school drive will be all out of whack. Maybe on a vacation day. Who knows. These would be better if the lake was actually water.