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Topic: Observations of a old guy
Yesterday and today for a while, we got a lot of snow. I mean a lot of snow. It is up to our knees once you break through the hard crust on top. In addition to the snow we are going to have cold, repeat cold temps. Tonight one below and tomorrow night maybe ten below. The wife and I went out to use the shovels to make a path for the mailman to get to the box if he makes it today. It is now about seven P.M. and he still has not. What ever happened to that 'in all kinds of weather etc."? But they do good work, It will get here sooner or later.
I remember in my youth, in the forties, I would go out in the snow and play all day, sled riding, snowballing, or whatever and I would not come home until my mother would call for me to eat supper, or lunch. I remember standing on the register which shot up a lot of hot air from the coal furnace until my limbs started to thaw out. I was not unique for those days, and it's a wonder we didn't get frostbite, but we survived. Now, as they say, everything has a time under heaven, and old guy time is not the time to want to be out in the snow too long.