Oh? Well, I sort of got the snow off.

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I kept delaying.  I did finish the dishes, boiled a few eggs for breakfast and later, and cleaned up after that.  I need to hit a little deeper in the kitchen still, but... that part is done.  Oh, and I'm drying the eggshells to grind and mix with the coffee grinds, or add to the pots or "tea".   I got together clothing to layer for the task outside.  It's been going on three decades since I put kit together so I wasn't sure.  I gauged the weather and chose my pieces, then... rested a bit.  Finally I decided it was now or never, being 10:00 and getting near bedtime.  Hoping to be up until 14:00 is... a possibility but it will be a stretch.  Other than figuring out how to stay up longer, that was the cutoff for doing anything.  So, I put my layers on, got my boots and was about to tie them up and go out when neighbors showed up!  Heh.  They were as surprised as I was.  *grins*  We thought you would be sleeping?  Urhm, I thought y'all were gone, out of town?  Surprise!  Hehe.

I did get the machine out and fired it up.  But too, they were shoveling as well.  As it turns out I got to try a scoop that might work for when I don't want to get the machine out.  The machine?  Well, mostly because while I can shovel, I can't shovel several times a week, or more.  Even snow blowing several times is a test.  My stamina simply gives out.  But for a few inches of snow the machine is too much and not the best at removal, same for really wet snow.  So I gave the boys and then dad shots at running the machine.  Quick work!  Now they get to go do their Church.  I think dad likes doing it by hand...  builds character...  No complaints here.  I had to build character, too.  :p  Plus that dang machine is so loud, and doesn't build a lick of muscle.

The layering was perfect.  I gauged the weather right and, other than getting in a rush so not tying my boots up, I was fine.  Even then my feet were good, if that wouldn't have been true for long.  Then again, for a longer outing I would most certainly have tied those.  I feel... a little more confident, as things come together, of finally being able to reasonably safely getting out into the winter hinterland for camping.  Teh white wolf(tm) might be on his way back to his favorite playlands!  Bit by bit, a piece at a time, my shattered world is coming back together.  Relearning the stick shift is... the next thing I need to figure out.  Yeah, I really did lose that skill somehow.  I mean, there is nothing in those memory slots.

Well... off to... drifting through the nether.  Be well, warm, and have a great day.  If not, no worries, I'll crash for you!