My dear wife Karen and I wondered how life at A Bitty Better would be when the first major snow hit our life in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville.
Big drifts.
We woke up in deep Monday morning.
Sunday’s weather forecasts had me prepared for early shovel action.
Tunnel effect.
Yet you don’t really know what you’re going to face until you get out there and do it.
What I’d put out the night before.
My socked-in driveway and buried vehicles took me 70 minutes to clear.
Dagnabbit!
And when I came in to tell Karen I was finished, the plow came by to deposit a new pile, oh, three feet wide by a foot high at the end of the driveway.
I had enough time to clear it again, though. Waiting for me on my phone was a text from the library’s emergency system. The snow two miles away in the Village of Liverpool had convinced my bosses to close the Liverpool Public Library for the day.
Postcard, anyone?
I jumped on our Facebook and Twitter pages to alert our patrons not to attempt to visit us. They could still take advantage of all of the great benefits of our site LPL.org, though.
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I wondered the rest of Monday how many more times I would shovel before leaving for work Tuesday.
Have you had a big snow where you live yet? Have you ever had this much snow to clear where you live? Would you now hire a snowplow guy if you were me or stubbornly cling to the shovel?
Mark Bialczak 
We haven’t had our first snow fall yet this year.. thankfully! I hate that when the snowplow comes by. That stuff is so hard to shovel!
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I hope it’s not too tough on you when you get the first one, Jen.
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Someone told me that other day that the farmers almanac is predicting a warm but very snowy year. I hope they’re right about the warm but wrong about the snow!
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Yes and yes, Jen!
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That’s a fair amount of snow, Mark. And here I was complaining that I had to scrape frost off my windshield this morning.
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You’ll get yours, CM. We tend to go back and forth!
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WOW! I’m loving where you live – even with the snow! Only ever seen snow like that when we were in Switzerland. Steve and I went ‘sledging’ down the hillside on a sheet of plastic; it was a lot of fun!
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I hope it was a thick sheet of plastic, Rachel. Yow!
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it was ! plus it was a lot of snow so a smooth ride. A lot of fun!
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I hope someday you and Steve get to experience a sleighride proper. You deserve it, Rachel.
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thank you Mark 🙂
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Goodness! Still never held a snow shovel in my hand, probably never will. We’re still running the a/c in the car while singing, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” I guess we have to sing all carols tongue in cheek, while you actually live the lyrics.
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Kerbey, may you never, ever have to shovel the white stuff as I do. But please sing away, always.
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Looks beautiful and a little more beautiful was the fact that you got to stay home and enjoy it… or spend the day shoveling. In either case, still nice to spend it with the wife. We’re still waiting on our big snow dump of the year, but we’ve gotten a couple snow storms so far, so we’re happy.
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Maybe the snow dump will stay away this year, Me Who. You never know. And, yes, my dear wife was home as well, but she was hard at work the whole day on her laptop.
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We’ve had several two-feet dumps in town where I live in the past. No snow yet in town this year, which is unusual but a chance of snow in the next several days is on the horizon…
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If you want it, I hope you get it, Kathryn Grace. If you don’t I hope it stays away!
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No thank you,if we have been a minimal amount here in the UK it causes havoc! Yes we have snow, often loads of it but we are never ready for it!! 😊
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Then I hope you get none, Willow!
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I am sure we will buy early in the New Year😊
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Wow. I’ve never seen that much snow in person in my entire life. Do not envy you that job!
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It was hard work, Kimi. It sure felt good to sit in my recliner afterward.
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Oh NO Thank U!!! Gatorette (PS) It was chilly the last few nights here though.
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May the white in your life be beautiful beach sand, dear Gatorette. ❤
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Thanks Mark-Happy Thanksgiving (hope some of that snow melts!).Gatorette
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and the whole big family, Cheryl. ❤
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It’s so sunny here in Sicily! Send us some snow:)
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Poof! Off to Sicily it goes, Trapani!
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♪┏(・o･)┛Do you wanna build a snowman?♪┗ ( ･o･) ┓♪ My girls would love to help you build a snowman, Mark.
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I would love to build a snowman with them, Patricia!
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No not yet, and you can just keep that stuff up there mmmmmmkay?
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No snow for you, Lorrie!
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Thank you Snow Gods!
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Eeeeeek!!!!!!
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You know the feeling, Ann. 😦
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not a huge accumulation here yet, except the snow during the michigan game on saturday. ) that’s a lot of work and your certainly earned your snow day. i love the postcard shot of the better bitty.
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I’m glad you’ve yet to get blasted, Beth. I shoveled again at 4:30 p.m. The good news was, this morning at 6:15, I only had a few inches to clear! Now I’m ready for my work day. 🙂
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