I'm just going outside and may be away some time

[sovay]

I just hacked a foot and a half of solid ice off my recycling bins with a metal spade so that I could take out the trash tonight. That was a lot more Scott of the Antarctic than I was expecting from a Monday night.

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[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I salute your determination!

According to The Guardian, Boston has had 73.9 inches of snow so far this winter. Gleep. Thaw will mean great continents of ice calving, and sliding thunderously off roofs.

Nine

[sovay]

According to The Guardian, Boston has had 73.9 inches of snow so far this winter. Gleep.

That matches my mother's estimation of sixty inches in her back yard, allowing for some melting and settling. She's five foot one.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Don't lose her!

Nine

[c-maxx.livejournal.com]

Yeep, 6 feet! Never saw that much in the years I was there.