Digging Out

Uncle Ken might be more interested in the weather if he was wallowing in it at ground level instead of viewing it with detachment from his ivory tower. I saw on the news this evening that Cheboygan has gotten 20 inches of snow so far this month, and the month ain't over yet. This broke our previous record for April by one inch. I don't think this last storm accounted for half of those 20 inches, but it came down wet and froze hard, making it really difficult to plow with my little tractor. I can't get down to the gravel with one pass like I do with the fluffy stuff we usually get, I've got to go over and over it, peeling it off in layers. My hypothetical wife has to get out tomorrow to have some work done on her car, so I have busted out a track for her, which should be sufficient because she has 4WD, but I will be standing by ready to render assistance if necessary. I've got the critical area by the mailbox cleared out. I always do that part first because we are the last house on the road and the mailman has to turn around in our driveway.

Actually, our mailbox is in our driveway instead of on the county road, since the guy has to turn around there anyway. I negotiated this deal when we first moved here, and committed to keeping it plowed out for him. There was no mail delivery yesterday and today, so I suspect some of the county roads are still in bad shape. Our own road is okay because my neighbor has a snow plow on his pick up truck and he plows down to the corner rather than wait for the county to do it. When the county plow shows up a day or two later, it pushes the banks back and also turns around in my driveway. Then I have to clean it out all over again. Today was our garbage pick up day, but the garbage truck didn't make it either. We do put the garbage cans on the edge of the county road, and I keep a spot plowed out for them so the snowplow won't hit them, but that doesn't mean it won't bury them when it finally comes through, so I'll have to check on that tomorrow as well.

I don't know if you guys know this about Face Book, but you don't have to see all the stuff your friends post. If you have a friend who posts stuff that you'd rather not see, you can un-follow him without un-friending him. Just go to his home page, or wall, or whatever they are calling it nowadays, and you will find a box that says "Follow". I think it defaults to that when you accept a new friend, but you can un-check the box and his stuff will no longer show up in your feed. Another thing is that, if you reply or like something, you will get more of that kind of stuff, and it will display higher up on the list. The best way to make similar stuff move farther down is to ignore it. Of course you can block or unfriend people, but that seems kind of mean when all they are doing is cluttering up your feed with boring crap.