6am Thursday:
12” snowfall overnight. DK working from home.
SK: Are you going to shovel the driveway?
DK: No.
SK: No?
DK: No.
SK: (Eye roll) You’re going to let me do it? Again?
DK: I’ll do it this afternoon after I finish my calls.
SK: No you won’t.
DK: Are you going to keep riding me on this all day?
6am Friday.
3” of additional snowfall overnight.
SK: Are you going to shovel the driveway?
DK: No.
SK: No?
DK: No. Not before work. I’m not showering again.
DK: Just leave it until I return tonight. It will warm up and melt.
SK: Really? You’re kidding right? (She heads outside to shovel.)
DK: I told you to leave it. (She has this Thing about a clean driveway)
SK: How do you plan to get out?
DK: Get out of the way. I’m going to ram through the piles with the car.
2pm Sunday.
DK ventures outside to clear the back steps. SK opens the door.
SK: Why don’t you use the steel edger/chopper to break the ice?
DK: Oh come on. Really? I’ve shoveled show before. Get inside.
SK: OK have it your way.
(Mumbling. Girl telling Canadian how to shovel snow. What’s next?)
I get after it.
I bend the show shovel trying to break the ice.
I lean on it to try bend it back.
I look through the back door to see if she’s watching.
Coast is clear.
I stomp through the snow to get to the garage to get the steel chopper.
I start slamming the ice.
On the third swing, I hit concrete.
Cold, vibrating steel.
Shooting, stabbing pain in my lower back.
Air whooshes out of my lungs.
I fall to my knees. (Dear God help me.)
SK: What’s wrong?
DK: My back.
SK: You’re joking, right?
DK: Does it look like a joke? (I crawl upstairs to bed.)
SK: (Laughing) Do you see any irony here?
DK: No. I don’t actually. None.
DK: I do see you getting enormous pleasure seeing me keeled over in pain.
SK: Oh, come on. Big Man clears 2-steps. I shovel massive piles of snow. (Still laughing)
DK: Stay away from me. Way back.
Snow forecast 3″-5” tonight.
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Oh no…that’s horrible, so sorry David. And, I really tried not to laugh, but it was kind of difficult starting at the line “I look through the back door to see if she’s watching.” I’m not laughing, really. How long have you two been married? A hundred years or something like that??? You’re both so funny, really…but it’s horrible, not funny, not laughing, trying not to laugh. I hope you’re okay.
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“I’m not laughing, really”. Carol, at least you are consistent in piling on! 🙂
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Well…it’s your own words that make me laugh…but honestly, I could feel your pain on this one. Not good. I truly hope you’re okay.
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I hate when that happens…good luck and get better soon.
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Thank you Ray.
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awww, well, sometimes it’s best just to say nothing and keep your distance. hope you feel better soon, but not well enough to shovel. )
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:). No shoveling. This snow removal worker is on injury leave
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ohhhh no ….
That’s gonna take some time to heal, you know. Hope someone is able to help clear the snow in the meantime!! 😦
5″ snow today & still coming down….. people are getting really snarky about it, too
take care!
MJ
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Oh, SK is going to do it…and give me the play by play for days.
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ha ha ha! Just talked to my wee mother in SK last night, and her comment? “It’s winter. I don’t know why people are so surprised about it.” 🙂
Heal up, my friend!
MJ
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Your Mother. Very smart woman.
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I hope you feel better, soon! This was a very funny dialogue, though.
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🙂 Thanks Peggy
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Robaxet time.
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Double shot!
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I’m sorry but I can’t stop laughing!
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And yet another piling on!
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Well you should have just shovelled the driveway in the first place David haha!
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Laughing. Nice.
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Oh no..sorry but this did bring a chuckle! Hope you feel better!
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Ahhhh yes. Another sympathesizer for the wrong team! 🙂
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OK … Enough is enough! I am seriously feeling terribly sorry for you guys out east. Time to conjure up a sun dance ceremony or something, anything to help! Take care of your back, David, and hope the snow melts before you have to get out and clear it or before SK can do it … 🙂 … It sounds like she would never let you hear the end of it!
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Keith, finally, someone who understands my plight. We need the Sun – the hankering is getting intolerable!
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Driveway fights back 🙂
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Driveway. Back steps. Sidewalks. All out to get us!
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“San Francisco open your Golden Gate …” Dude, from the west coast you are talking a foreign language. As long as your fingers work we are good – need you to keep blogging.
Seriously, get well and take care of your back.
– Michael
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Laughing. Thank you Michael. I love San Francisco. And after this winter, we’re motivated to move there…
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OUCH! I hope your back pain heals real soon, David. Hopefully soon followed by some warm(er) weather.
I don’t know whether the weather will soon change
But hope your back gets back to being without pain!
Russ
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Thank you Russ!
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Oh no! This means that you are now likely to contract “I told you so” syndrome. Not nice.
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Oh yes Michael. I live in THAT bubble.
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Hope you’re feeling better (heeheehee).
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Ah yes. Another sympathetic Female follower. My memory is long (and cold). 🙂
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i’m sorry you hurt your back…hard not to smile a bit though at Susan’s reaction (which I must admit is the same as mine would be)
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Of Course. Of course it would be.
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I, too, am sorry to hear that you’re on the D.L., pal, but Susan DID try to get you out there earlier (can you see how the ‘x’ chromosomes begin to cluster?… ) we’re looking down the barrel of another 6-8″ ourselves today. That groundhog, he’s dead to me….
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Laughing. Esp with the Groundhog close. Still laughing.
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Isn’t marriage grand? I love this dialogue; if it weren’t for the fact snow is involved, I’d say my husband and I were the players. (Yes, I’d be the one shoveling the soft snow). Feel better soon, David!
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🙂 I’m getting back (slowly)
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HA! Oh how I love Susan & miss you guys!! She ALWAYS knows best 🙂
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Ah yes. Could always count on you to side with SK
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HA! Oh how I love Susan & miss you guys! She ALWAYS knows best!
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My friend, there are SO many responses to this that, well, I’m tongue tied! Thus, I shall say nothing more and leave it up to your imagination (pure torture I’m sure). Not so much “piling on” as “jumping up and down” … No? By the way, aren’t Canadians supposed to be good in the snow?
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If I could jump up and down to join you, I would. Unfortunately, I’m still contorted. And I see that you couldn’t will up the courage to share “so many of your responses.” Come on Big Man. Spill it.
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Oh you have got to be kidding me … The “2-stepper man” is actually throwing out taunts!
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Sir Galahad: Is there someone else up there we can talk to?
French Soldier: No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0091166/quotes
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Now that is hilarious. Love that movie, and it is indeed the holy grail. Did you hear that MPFC is doing a comeback tour in London? First show sold out in 43 seconds … not a typo, 43 seconds.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2513268/Monty-Python-reunion-tickets-sell-43-5-SECONDS-going-sale.html
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Wow. I hadn’t heard. But I’m not surprised. I would have been in line for tickets.
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:01 AM, lead.learn.live. wrote:
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Happening in numerous driveways across the country! Sorry about your back.
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Thanks!
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Oh dear!
Pardon my chuckle.
I really do hope your back is feeling better by now.
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Ah yes. RoSy piling on with the Women. Shocking (not)!
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Everyone has already said it (chuckle) and I really do hope you are on the mend soon. Honest. 🙂
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🙂 Honest. Right.
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Aargh!! Sorry, David. Not funny.
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Thank you Sylvia
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 6:51 PM, lead.learn.live. wrote:
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