Snowy
Our backyard this morning, probably three hours before it finished snowing:
Hooray for the very kind neighbors with snowblowers! Not one but two of them (including the folks from whom we bought this house) cleared our sidewalk and accessible parts of the driveway. Still left plenty of shoveling, but it sure was nice not having to do the fairly lengthy sidewalk out front. Memo to self: remember to bake muffins on snowy nights so both snowblowers get them.
I've seen some stories about plowing being cut back this year due to budget constraints. If this is the cut-back plowing, I can only imagine that the full-force efforts involve the city government housing a dedicated snow removal worker in every house in the city. ("Q. Who's that guy sleeping on the couch? A. Bob the snow guy. Duh.")
I'm sure some of this is due to the fact that we live on a semi-major road -- lots of people use the road to bypass downtown Florence to get out to Ryan Road and Florence Road and such -- but still, it's only a couple of hours after the snow stopped falling and the road is nearly bare of snow.
P.S. About those muffins: I made the gingerbread muffins from The Quick Recipe from the editors of Cooks Illustrated. We only recently got this cookbook, featuring "quick" (less than an hour generally) recipes, and I was a little skeptical, but so far, it hasn't steered us wrong. The cinammon rolls featured on the cover are almost disturbingly good.
Hooray for the very kind neighbors with snowblowers! Not one but two of them (including the folks from whom we bought this house) cleared our sidewalk and accessible parts of the driveway. Still left plenty of shoveling, but it sure was nice not having to do the fairly lengthy sidewalk out front. Memo to self: remember to bake muffins on snowy nights so both snowblowers get them.
I've seen some stories about plowing being cut back this year due to budget constraints. If this is the cut-back plowing, I can only imagine that the full-force efforts involve the city government housing a dedicated snow removal worker in every house in the city. ("Q. Who's that guy sleeping on the couch? A. Bob the snow guy. Duh.")
I'm sure some of this is due to the fact that we live on a semi-major road -- lots of people use the road to bypass downtown Florence to get out to Ryan Road and Florence Road and such -- but still, it's only a couple of hours after the snow stopped falling and the road is nearly bare of snow.
P.S. About those muffins: I made the gingerbread muffins from The Quick Recipe from the editors of Cooks Illustrated. We only recently got this cookbook, featuring "quick" (less than an hour generally) recipes, and I was a little skeptical, but so far, it hasn't steered us wrong. The cinammon rolls featured on the cover are almost disturbingly good.
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