Darn Dan, I didn't have this in Ft Dodge when I shovelled snow in the 1950's!
Dogs love snow. Mine jumped to catch the flakes and my lightweight loved walking on any crust that formed!
I have a snow blower but is is a walk behind and at my age, it is getting hard..
Glad to see the Iowa I grew up in!
Dan2
Hey Dan,
I too have a large 2 stage walk behind blower. It works well but I am a young, fairly fit 58 yr old. No doubt some of the fitness and good health comes from the early years when dad would hand you the shovel and tell you the drive needs shoveling. He had a snowblower but "kid you're too young for that!" Then as all kids I thought it was unfair and him being tough; in retrospect him being tough then has put me in a much better place now.
Neighbor Al is 78 ish, and doing really well but a walk-behind blower wouldn't work for him or his back anymore. Al and Diane have a beautiful home, large yard, etc; and it's the tractor, other toys that provide much needed assists for them to stay there. I help out when needed, but so far it's mostly been the fun stuff like building a beehive or some maintenance stuff or shoveling off the porch while he plows the drive. Once in a while it's the quick run to Menards for them like when the water in the basement sump is 4 inches from being on the floor and shouldn't............... Of course that's at 8pm and you aren't calling a plumber; at least I am helpful in that regard.
Keep your head down and stay warm the next couple days with this new storm. I must say snow storms don't seem to bottle us up as much in the midwest, my simple opinion is we have 1/20th the people and that makes a big difference; don't think we have anymore snowplows per mile that you folks out east, just less people to clog up the roads when weather goes south.
Take care,
Dan
Darn, I never saw a motorized snow removal gadget at 10 yrs old. The 1st sign of snow was shovel dad's car out, sidewalks then I was free to make some pocket money shovelling others walks/alleys(in Ft Dodge, blocks were cut in half by an alley and garage) I did pretty good and it was fun yet tiring.
A "right of passage" so to speak.
I rarely saw an old guy doing this..it was kids.
The gud olde daze!
Dan
Jan 16, 2022 at 03:01 PM
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