We got a foot of snow, not terrible, but a bit of a mess for two neighbors who tried to venture out yesterday before the snow plows came. Our street is very deceiving. It’s a slight incline to get up the road. We walk it enough to know, but in normal weather, it just appears level. It’s not. So tires spun and people got stuck. With below zero temps, and even worse wind chills, it was not a good situation. However, they did have plenty of help.
Later the snow plows came, and our culdesac is pretty tight, so they always pile up the snow in someone’s driveway. Usually it is ours. This time it was our next door neighbor. This morning, hubby went out with his snowblower to work it from one angle. The neighbor called the city, who finally showed up with a bucket loader, and moved it to where it should be out of everyone’s way. I never understand why they block us in, but I guess visibility isn’t very good sometimes.
Yesterday I made a vegetable lasagne from scratch. It’s a bit of prep with all the chopping, but it sure is tasty and holds together well. Since there are only two of us, I offered a third of it to another neighbor who lives on the next street over. She is low key about it, but she doesn’t eat meat, though her husband does. We seem to do things for each other frequently, so this was my turn. A week ago she made some orange cranberry muffins, but was out of cranberries, and I still had some in my fridge. She is probably 12 or so years older than me, and it’s a good friendship.
Here’s the recipe if anyone wants to try it. I use a little bit less of the sugar, and added about a cup of red wine once it was settling in.
https://therecipecritic.com/vegetarian-lasagna/
A foot of snow is a LOT to contend with in one dump. Mind your backs! ;)
I spent 2 hours outside shoveling the driveway this afternoon. It was 28°, sunny & not much wind so not too bad for shoveling. Around 3:30, clouds blocked the sun & the wind really picked up so I came in, plus I was tired. The temp had dropped to 25°.
We got a couple of inches of soft, fluffy snow, then several inches of sleet on top of that. To shovel, I have to cut blocks in the hard about 4” upper crust, small enough to pick up with the shovel & also get the snow layer underneath. I got about 2/3 of the driveway shoveled from where I parked the car to the road. I will have to finish the last 3rd tomorrow. Note to self: park the car a LOT closer to the road next time!
The road itself is clear - crews had chemicals down Thursday already & snow plows went by while I was shoveling, one in each direction. They’re mainly getting slush back off the edges of the road at this point. A small beat up old PU roared by & I heard some loud metallic noises - 2 snow shovels had ‘flown’ out of the back of the PU & were in the road. I started ‘postholing’ my way to the road to get the shovels before someone hit them at speed & had a wreck. Fortunately, before I could get very far, the PU came backing down the road in the other lane, past his shovels - I was pointing to the shovels & he pulled up to get them. He could see I was shoveling & yelled to me “that stuff is hard, isn’t it?!” I hollered back “yes, but at least we didn’t get freezing rain!” He agreed, then said something about he was thinking about getting some dynamite ... LOL.