Holy sweet mother of...
Dec. 9th, 2005 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarahmichelefThe shiny red snowblower has a new name:
THE BEAST
After being dumb about starting it (oh, right, there's a KEY that makes it go!), I successfully cleared the rest of the driveway and the sidewalks, but HOLY CRAP was that hard! The drive wheel didn't get much purchase, so I had to push the thing most of the time. I want there to be a gear between 3rd and 4th, because in 3rd it can't go quite fast enough, and in 4th it tries to get away from me a little bit. I'm sure I looked terribly comical out there... there were some neighbors clearing their driveways, cool as cucumbers, and here I was huffing and puffing and swearing...
But I did it. Take that, six inches of snow! (At least that's my eyeballed amount based on what's standing next to the cleared sidewalks.) Go, me!
THE BEAST
After being dumb about starting it (oh, right, there's a KEY that makes it go!), I successfully cleared the rest of the driveway and the sidewalks, but HOLY CRAP was that hard! The drive wheel didn't get much purchase, so I had to push the thing most of the time. I want there to be a gear between 3rd and 4th, because in 3rd it can't go quite fast enough, and in 4th it tries to get away from me a little bit. I'm sure I looked terribly comical out there... there were some neighbors clearing their driveways, cool as cucumbers, and here I was huffing and puffing and swearing...
But I did it. Take that, six inches of snow! (At least that's my eyeballed amount based on what's standing next to the cleared sidewalks.) Go, me!
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Date: 2005-12-09 09:31 pm (UTC)I had to SHOVEL my entire driveway. And we had eight inches. And I got stuck in the PARKING LOT at work.
Uh, any chance you could loan me the snowblower?