[Edit: I had a facebook memory come up that had this exact same title and very much the same content – from 12 years ago. I appear to be stuck in a rut and I’m not nearly as clever as I’d like to think I am.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had my window shades closed yesterday while I was working and when I was done for the day I saw that we\u2019d had a lot of snow. Like, a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The day had ended on a frantic note at work – I was literally doing the jobs of three people who were out of the office – and I was still keyed up. I didn\u2019t have anywhere to go, but figured I should try to get caught up on the shoveling while I could – for when I did<\/em> need to go somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I put on a scarf, a hat, a heavy coat, my heavy gloves and my boots – not in that order – and went to the garage for my trusty shovel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I closed the garage door behind me and set to work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And, it wasn\u2019t bad. I don\u2019t know of anyone that enjoys shoveling snow, but I usually don\u2019t mind it. The snow wasn\u2019t too heavy, it wasn\u2019t too cold, and the driveway really isn\u2019t that big. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I had a plan of sorts and worked my way down the drive, my mind pleasantly empty. That\u2019s the best part of a repetitive task like shoveling the drive, it frees up my head to think deep thoughts or none at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I started to lose the light as I finished up and concluded by spreading salt on the front steps – and the side steps of my 80 year old neighbor. Another neighbor had cleared the driveway, but his blower couldn\u2019t reach that area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I put away my shovel and got some rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, I got an earlier start since it had snowed again last night. It went quicker this time – there was less snow – and my head instead filled with ideas for haikus. I had four of them in my head and no way to write them down, but managed to distill them into key words I could use to create them again later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had enough energy to brush off the cars, clear a longer path for my neighbor, and clear off the back patio at our house for the dogs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n My back is a little sore and I\u2019m a little tired. And I\u2019ll sleep well tonight. But, I\u2019ll be back at it again tomorrow if I need to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Clearing the driveway – and my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Edit: I had a facebook memory come up that had this exact same title and very much the same content – from 12 years ago. I appear to be stuck in a rut and I’m not nearly as clever as I’d like to think I am.] I had my window shades closed yesterday while I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}