Exploring Fabius Township and St. Joseph County, Michigan, with side trips all over this Great Lakes state

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Yeoman's work

 
I yearn to buck the crowd,  but,  yikes,  I am yielding to the urge to post this photo and join the throng of mellow yellows*  on ABC Wednesday

My neighbor at 84 continues to do yeoman’s work,  clearing her quarter-mile long driveway of snow, and this week she did it two days in a row!   This is not the Yukon,  but we do live in the southwest Michigan snow belt.   Lake effect snow buries us when cold northwest winds blow over the warmer  water of southern Lake Michigan. 

We have one of these scoops, too.  We call them Canadian snow shovels,  but I don’t find reference to this name on the web.  We also have a little snow blower and a friend with a plow on the front of his pickup.  Compared to Joanne we are wimps!

*Donovan did a lot with Colours!

9 comments:

  1. How amazing that at 84 your neighbour still works so hard!

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  2. way to go Joanne, I won't feel very embarrassed if I live next door to her.

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  3. The yellow certainly stands out

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  4. Many thanks for the Donovan music--a trip back in time for me! And that makes two 'wimps' because I'm too out of shape to shovel. Besides, we've already had a brown Christmas in the Twin Cities.
    Happy New Year!

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  5. I have had to deal with ZERO snow since the freak October storm!

    ROG, ABC Wednesday team

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  6. It's a beautiful photograph but I just can't imagine the coldness...definitely freezing point for me , who's from a tropical country!

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  7. This year I don't see many snow pictures amongst my Blog friends. We don't have snow in Belgium it's very warm for the season about 11 °C (52F) It's the warmest winter since 1873 !!
    I hope I still can shuffle snow at that age !

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  8. how I hope I am still that active at 84

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  9. What a heartfelt photo, so filled with inspiration.

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