Gary we know you ain't dead yet and we don't want you to be... I'm not talking about neighborhood kids, I'm talking about guys with plows on their 4 by 4 ... look in your local paper no doubt there'd be a ton of ads in there for them... stay inside with that 950 ...

Tony, those guys are all making huge amounts of money doing shopping center parking lots. One of my neighbors has a monster 1-ton pickup truck with a snow plow on the front and salt speader in the back - he picks up $10,000 clearing the snow from just one local shopping center's parking lot. And he has done as many as 3 during one night of snow. Not a bad way to make a year's income. Of course, last winter, we didn't have any snow at all here and he had to get a regular job working as a brick layer for a local contractor. I don't think he's worried about laying bricks this winter.

Gary

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful . . . let it snow! Doesn't bother me a bit.
Leaving for Dallas to deliver the Bosi to Janet.
Sun is so bright, I need darker sunglasses driving that direction. Problems never end, do they?

... taking pics while DRIVING?!? ...

Gary ... I am sure SOME of them are, but my neighborhood isn't much different from yours, and there are numerous independent guys picking up extra cash plowing people's driveways ...
If you WANTED to have someone do it, I KNOW you could find someone ... but if you want to continue doing it yourself, by all means do it ... but for Carol's sake, make sure the life insurance policy is paid up !!! ...

Life insurance? I don't need no stinking life insurance! Lets see now, if I kick the bucket this evening she gets the house, the boat, my retirement account, half of my Social Security. all the music gear, and my bony ass gets incinerated and dumped in Chesapeake Bay. I haven't had life insurance since in turned 70. Insurance companies don't want 70-year-plus old men having Term Life policies, and if you try to buy it, it costs a fortune. I figured I would try to piss the money away so it would be a break even situation when I kicked off, but that ain't working out any better than getting shot in the back of the head by a jealous husband at 108 while climbing out a second story window with my pants down around my ankles and a 19-year old screaming "Don't leave me, Gary - Don't leave me."

Thanks for the concern, though guys - but I just take a leisurely walk behind the snow blower at low travel speed and steer it. Nothing strenuous about that, but damned it's cold out there right now and the snow is still piing up at an inch an hour.

Gary

Well, the snow just stopped, so I'll wait till morning to tackle the driveway and sidewalk. The temperature is dropping like a stone, forecast is for 3 degrees f tonight, high of 12 tomorrow. If I can clear the driveway and sidewalk in three hours of less, I might be able to make tomorrow's job. If not, I'll call the AD and reschedule for next week.

Don't you just love those seasonal changes, Donny and Dave! Give me the sunny south and I'd be a happy camper.

Nite all,

Gary

Gary - I absolutely love the changes! Mmmmm ... smell that snow - beautiful! Me and my school kiddies have 2 unexpected days off to play in it, and recharge our youthful batteries before we get down to work again. You could never appreciate the majesty of spring if it didn't follow winter! Say hello to my parents next time you run away to the south ... they're snow-birds and I won't see them till April!
As for me and my house .... we shall play in the snow.