Wednesday, January 5, 2011

A Gift That Keeps on Giving

(at least 8 times)

Yesterday I shovelled the drive and the sidewalk. We have a corner lot. That’s a lot of sidewalk, but here wasn’t a lot of snow, so it didn’t take more than 20 minutes.
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Our very wide driveway. In times past the kids would help shovel.

Usually my husband shovels. Sometimes he talks about getting a snow blower. I wanted to get him one for Christmas, but once I started looking at them I realized we would need one very big snow blower. Our drive is three cars wide and we can only pile snow on one side.

A very big snow blower is not only expensive, but takes up a lot of room and looks very mechanically complicated. Many things could go wrong with a very big snow blower.

So, for Christmas I gave my husband 8 coupons to be redeemed at his discretion. Each coupon was worth one shovelling of the driveway and sidewalk.

I thought he would be ecstatic. He wasn’t. Snow shovelling is man’s work.

But, he got over it and redeemed the first coupon with the very first snowfall.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

If he really feels that way Marian you can send him up here everytime it snows here so he can shovel my driveway. lol :)
Oh and I need it done by 4:30am every medium and heavy snow fall. lol :)
Tami

Marian said...

Tami, keep dreaming girl:) Maybe when he retires and we move back up that way.

Anonymous said...

lol
Hope you had a great Christmas & New Years. Sorry we missed you. We didn't have a lot of time down there and there wasn't a Christmas Eve service that we could see everyone.
Talk to you later
Tami