I Had Forgotten About These Muscles

Yesterday morning I was in the Twin Cities. I left in time so that I would be back in Fergus with plenty of extra time before my work shift started. I turned into my driveway at exactly 1:00pm so I was pretty excited about my hour and a half until I left for work.

Then I saw my driveway.

Now, the space between the alley and the garage is only about 20 feet long but I've learned from experience that it's not always a good idea to just "plow though" all types of snow (for those of you outside the Midwest, yes there are different types of snow!). Because of this discovery, I parked my car by my neighbor's garage. Next I had to stomp though snow that was three feet deep. Well, probably only about 10 inches, but it seemed like a lot more! I finally made it to the garage where I had one of my shovels. Luckily, it was the shovel used for the heaviest kind of snow like was on the ground. Now my task was to shovel a path big enough for my car to get into the garage. About 10 minutes into this I realized the snow was REALLY heavy and I was getting pretty hot with my coat on, since it was a balmy 40 degrees. The coat came off.

I finally got my car into the garage, and then shoveled my way into my house, and walked through the door at 1:50pm. Where had the time gone? I realized I needed to shovel a quick path for the postman to reach the door from the front sidewalk, so I finished up around 2:10 and basically had enough time to unload my car and change for work. Whewww, I was tired!

Nursing ends up being a pretty physical job, with a lot of lifting, pulling, tugging, bending, etc. and by the end of my shift I realized there were a lot of muscles that I had forgotten about!

There are definitely things that I'll miss about being a homeowner, but shoveling is NOT one of them!


This picture is from my back door looking back at my garage. Today I finished cleaning up the rest of the snow that I ran out of time for yesterday.