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Posted on 12/01/2006 12:55:15 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Agreed!!
I just got back from running a couple of errands. The ice on the hood and the lid of the truck was about 2" thick, thank goodness, I was able to get it off in parking lots, rather than have it fly off and hit the car behind me! It could have done some serious damage.
Our driveway faces north and I've been chipping on it, but it really, really doesn't want to come off.
The other day at Walmart, I saw a hugh sheet of ice from the top of the light post...one of those massive lights in the parking lot, you know...fall off and hit the hood of a car underneath.
It didn't seem to do much damage to the car, but had it hit a person, it would've smarted, I'm sure.
They closed the Narrows bridge during our ice storm, because enormous icicles were breaking loose and falling on cars.
Yesterday we watched a couple episodes of This Old House, and they were putting radiant heating under the driveway and the walk up to the house... how posh is that? ;~)
~chuckling~
I've seen that!
I'm applying heating to my back right now! LOL!
I have a large blister on my finger.
I just showed SirKit the picture of the moose on the power line. He said that it reminded him of that classic tome, "Antlers in the Treetops" by Hoo Goosed DaMoos. ;o)
Ice is such a pain in the tuckus!!
They put an anti-freeze type liquid in those pipes under driveways! They'd be great for under stairs leading to the front door, too, so you don't slip on ice when going out to get the mail!
Steve got some done after the second wave that went through...see, you can see where he cleared off a bit and stuck it in the yard as art work.
Now, here is what I got done!
See, here is an example of the sheet of ice I removed.
I would score the ice with the barn scraper till it broke, then manually reach down and pick up the sheet of ice and toss it into a pile on the side of the drive. This is the pile on one side, the other side looks the same.
You DO deserve a Hot Toddy!! That is HARD work!
I may die any minute.
Heh heh...
I keep forgetting I'm old.
*snort*
It was beautiful outside when I started...it has since clouded over. We're under a winter storm warning now...
Good work, 2J!! What's a barn scraper? I was hacking on my ice with a garden hoe and getting nowhere!
After admiring Becky's bird feeders pics I hung a suet feeder on the tree with a nail, all I've gotten so far is about a dozen starlings (sigh).
I'm not sure how to describe it! Ours is a metal tool...the handle is metal, it attaches to a a metal blade that you can push in front of you and scrape out a barn, apparently. Steve found it in the road.
I would slam the metal blade into the ice until it would fracture, then wedge up the ice and pick it up and throw it aside.
YIKES! No wonder you have blisters!!
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