The Art of Scooping Snow

For those of you that do not live where it snows, concider yourself lucky, because I hate....i mean despise snow so much.........I really wish i still lived in Texas because I loved it so much there......

For those of you who do live where it snows you are probably smart enough to have a snow blower, especially if you have a large driveway.........my parents used to have a snow blower which was very smart because we have a huge driveway.............my dad used to sell radient barrier and would barder(sp?) with people so that they could get it in their house......we would get cows pigs and other things, but one year we got a snow blower.........but not just any snow blower, but the mother of all snow blowers....it was a two stage with like eight gears and an inclosed place where you could ride behind it.........this thing was so sweet and could get our drive done in like twenty min.  Anyway, the year after we got that i made a killing in doing other people's drives, but the year after that my dad decides to just sell it and get a scoop............yep, just one scoop.......now i will tell you how much this sucks!!!!!

When you start scooping you look at the task ahead and realize you got a foot and a half last night and it is not just snow, but rain that you had got before that so it is really heavy snow......so you start out thinking that this will only take two hours like normal and then you realize...oh shit.....this sucks so much, so you can't just push it off to the side and then throw it up because you have so much of it...........now you have to come up with a new tecnique.........this wonderfull new tecnique is a little something i like to call the scoop and heave..........this is where you scoop about a square foot, because this is all your scoop will hold, and throw it as far as you can because if you don't get it far enough you will have to scoop the same snow twice.......and sometimes you will run out of room to put the snow so you will end up throwing it up till the snow gets about sholder high..........anyway, this is the tecnique i used today and then i got to the end of the drive where the plows have come by twice already, so of course the snow there is almost waist high already so it takes about three scoops to get to the cement..........

Anyway needless to say it took me about four hours today to get a clean drive and sidewalks which is pretty much twice as long as it normally takes me on a light snow........I hate snow and especially my dad since he is too cheap to get a freaking snow blower, or at least another scoop so he can help, but he is pretty much to lazy to do anything.....but that is another story.......so anyway, i want to move south........hate snow and scooping.......anyway this is the end of my little rant.........