24 degrees, going to a warmish 39 today, so looks like some change over to rain, with the snow line running through NJ now, but inching over to PA.
DC is getting blasted right now, snowing like crazy there. Snow plows woke me up about 2.30, making a too early pass and banging along the macadam, I guess someone was bored...and someone else was paying for the fuel. But now they can sure come back. The suburban is becoming a giant white blob again.
I guess I'll wait for the neighbor to crank up his blower and start the Pavlovian reaction up and down the street. My almost new Ariens is way down on power, most annoying, it has all of twenty hours on it, and it has tons of additives in it. I have this sinking feeling I have a small head gasket leak. Maybe I'll try torquing down the head bolts for now and see if I get lucky. It's like running on 2hp when one should have 9. So, needless to say, I'll have to take a number of passes at this stuff.
The local dealer had sold out of every snowblower, every generator, every everything. Only a few truck plows left. His Kubota showroom could be danced in, never saw it like that ever. I suggested he quick move a little BX in with a blower on it to his warm showroom and do a little upselling from a 800 dollar snowthrower. He liked that idea...
and I wasn't about to ask his crew to fix my snowblower and line jump. They looked exhausted and frazzled. But hey, you make hay when the sun shines right?
I had already taken in my log splitter tire and they stopped for me and fixed it while I waited; thanks to all the donuts I take in there. They remember...
My neighbor and I worked hard yesterday taking an ice
chipper to my driveway, (he did that, not me..._then blew it pretty clean with a leaf blower, and then salted it like crazy. Both of us almost fell from black ice. Not after the salt... otherwise it would be ice under the new snow.
I live on a hill and the driveway has a pretty good pitch to it. so needless to say I blow snow going downhill. But when I hit black ice and the heavy snowblower doesn't move much but i sure do, like having a slow dance with your partner while your feet are doing the mamba. Hang on sloopy. Not good on the back and a few other body parts either. going to go very slowly...going to snow all day anyway.
we can do it, one more...
