Happy saint paddy's day

[dalesql]

Here in Boston, we celebrated with a nor'easter snowstorm the day before. Today I spent too much time clearing the twelve or so inches of soaking wet snow from the driveway and front walk. Thank ghu for snowblowers. Fun snowblower trivia. Did you know that if you leave some soaking wet snow in the discharge chute while you are changing one of the shear pins, it will freeze solid by the time you finish changing the pins. Chipping plugs of ice out of the snowblower is no fun at all.
I also discovered that the shear pins we bought for the snowblower are about a quarter inch too short for it. Duct tape will hold the shear pins in place though. All hail the power of duct tape!

Once the driveway was cleared as much as we were goign to get it, and the snowblower got put away. Time for a bit of snowy saint paddy's day fun. I got out the quart of green food coloring I just happened to have in the back of my car, and the spray bottle. I now have a driveway covered with green slush and snow. *laughs* Happy saint paddy's day.

Comments

[savant-da-rat.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, pictures PLEASE! The greed driveway sounds like so much fun hehe :) Wish I had some snow left to do something similar (and a quart of food dye... why DID you have that sitting in your car, anyway??)

[dalesql.livejournal.com]

No pictures. It's an ephemeral thing, so I don't want to take pictures. Besides, it has already faded a lot, and it's getting dark. Lots of it melted even with the anemic sunlight we got today. I may remember this trick for midwinter ice melting.
The green food coloring was on sale, how could I resist such a deal? and the inner nine-year-old really couldn't resist it.

[savant-da-rat.livejournal.com]

    No pictures. It's an ephemeral thing, so I don't want to take pictures.

*pouts like a nine year old* I understand, but I still would have liked to have seen it :)

[mcfractal.livejournal.com]

Happy St. Patrick's.

[ctnijo.livejournal.com]

We've had our snowblower for 26 years. We bought it back when my parents first moved in, and we bought it "used" (it was 4 years old at the time). It's now 2007, and it still works perfectly fine. It works so well it even rivals the snow blowers that some of my neighbors have recently purchased.

The saying "They don't build em' like they used to" is very true in my opinion.