Chipping Away at the Ice
Bradley’s method of sidewalk snow removal is to make a snowball, throw it in the path of an oncoming car…
…then watch as the car drives past and crushes the snowball.
Of course, since the snowball method is quite slow, every now and then, Bradley gives in and throws and entire shovel-full. (Check out that back action. Wouldn’t it be nice to be a kid again?)
From my upstairs window, it seemed as though Gregory was falling asleep on the job.
Turned out, he was just trying desperately to make sure his dad would be able to see through the windshield. (How sweet.)
Then he managed to get the broom stuck under the windshield wiper. “Dad! Help!”
Mike to the rescue!
Trust me, they’re not fighting over who gets to shovel snow. They’re fighting over who gets to play with the cool shovel.
I think Bradley won.
So Gregory went back to shoveling the sidewalk. His shoveling method involved kicking the snow with his big toe. Very effective.
Mike surveyed the situation. First we had rain, then sleet, then snow, lots and lots of slushy snow, then more sleet, then rain. Then the whole mess froze over night. Instead of a shovel, Mike needed a jack hammer.
So he got out the snow blower. Helped a little bit, but not much.
I can see his backache already.
Notice Bradley and Gregory are conspicuously absent from these last photographs. They had long since given up the notion of helping dad with the shoveling chore.
As for me,
I was a big help watching from the window, don’t you think?
Wow I love this little documentary! I didn’t even think that there would be any snow anywhwere in the country since it’s been so warm here. = )
I’d pay to have a truckload of snow delivered to my front yard!
Comment by Bumatay — March 18, 2007 @ 1:57 am
I wish we had snow in Los Angeles. Today it was actually chilly…70 degrees. Sad, isn’t it?
Comment by Nataly — March 19, 2007 @ 1:12 am