Nothing Better Than People Helping

I don't want to derail you from my reflections on last weekend but I wanted to mention something from today as it fits into the 'just my luck' category that, in general, we're discussing anyway.

Break started today and I had looked forward to sleeping in and just resting. Last night it snowed this nasty heavy wet snow. Instead of resting, I woke up at my normal time and started the clean-up process. The streets and alley by the house had all been plowed and had stayed clean after the snow ended. I've got a newish snow blower and it did a tolerable job of dealing with the mess. It knocked enough of it away so that I didn't have to shovel all that much, apart from by the garage in the alley because there's no good way to throw big wet boulders of snow left by the plow. Once that was cleaned up, I got the blower in the back seat of my car and headed for my parents house as I didn't want my Dad to have to clear their long driveway by himself.

My parents live on the other side of town and there's no quick way to get there. It's not the longest trip in the world but the half-hour or so on a good day is enough to keep me from running over there more than once a month. With the city 'assaulted' by snow, traffic was much worse and it took almost an hour to get there. I was tired from my own clean-up, annoyed by traffic, and then slid around their semi-plowed subdivision to their house where I saw their driveway was nice and clean, apart from my brother's car.

I hadn't expected this. His family lives just far enough away where I'm considered the close one and take on tasks like heavy snow removal because it's just not practical for him to come running all the time. For a moment I considered turning around and just going home, but I went in and said hi, even though we'll all see each other this weekend. Turns out he'd just got a new snow blower and wanted to 'play' with it a bit more. No big deal really but I wish they'd have thought to call me so, at least, I didn't have to lug my snow blower across town.

Oh well. Back to the story in progress.