The mighty battler of accumulated sleet
Well, as some of you may know, I live in Oklahoma City now and if you’ve been watching the news you’d know that we just got hit by some severe winter weather.
Nancy and I have been pretty much cooped up since Friday because we’ve had a constant barrage of sleet falling on our fair land.
Nancy wanted me to dig out the front stairs as it fell, but I felt we should wait until most of it had fallen. Well, that day happened to be today (Sunday).
So, I dug out my thermal shirt and my old snowboarding gloves and face gator and went outside to tackle the sleet.
Nancy had the intelligence and foresight to purchase a snow shovel before the frozen stuff started to fall. Unfortunately, after sitting on the stairs for a couple days, the weight of the sleet must’ve melted the stuff on the bottom because we had a good half inch of ice on the stairs with about 4-6 inches of sleet on top of it.
So, the snow shovel was kinda useless. Fortunately, I still had my landscaping shovel that we purchases when we built our flowerbeds at the Houston house. It has a flat blade instead of a curved one. It proved to be quite useful.
Nancy came out and took a few pictures because she needed some winter weather pictures to go with some scrapbooking embellishments that she had in her collection.
After getting the stairs scrapped, I had to salt them. So I went to the garage and grabbed one of the 2 fifty pound bags or salt Nancy had purchased with the snow shovel.
Well, it became heavy quickly. I had to walk around the entire complex to get from my garage to the front stoop. So when I got to the stairs, I couldn’t hold onto the bag anymore and it fell out of my hands and hit the ground. Well, the bag blew it’s sides out and there was salt everywhere.
Fortunately, Nancy brought me a large Ziploc plastic container that I used to scoop up the salt and get it onto the stairs.
Well, now the stairs are clear and I have a sore back, but it was a good outlet to blow off some steam.
