Posted by Jim at January 14th, 2004

Living in Michigan, you don’t automatically get constant snow every day all winter, but sometimes it feels like it.

We’ve probably gotten 10-12 inches in the course of the last 2 weeks. Granted, some 5 of those inches melted into slush (and now ice) last Sunday/Monday, but that still leaves 6-7 on the ground.

It also means that 6-7 inches are on the driveway.

In past years my tactic for dealing with this problem could be described as “wait for spring.” As a general rule, the driveway would be level with the yard–except for the tire treads from my wife’s car. They’d be about 2 inches thick of a densely packed ice/snow mixture not unlike a glacier–well, at any rate not unlike a small, hard, unmoving glacier.

This year, with the newly found responsibility of a parent of two toddlers who want to walk up the driveway, I’ve shoveled every time it snows. I’ve even shoveled the sidewalks (the city doesn’t).

It’s sad how much of a sense of accomplishment I feel.

I feel so good, I may even mow my lawn next summer.