Tall and wide. When my dear wife Karen pulled up in our driveway from an outing recently, we found the next-door neighbor kids sledding … at the edge of our driveway on the snow pile left by our plowing company. It has been consistently snowing this month, you betcha. Karen kindly asked them not to…

Stakes are high. My dear wife Karen and I looked outside our front door and realized that our plowing company rep had stealthily places this season’s stakes to mark the edges of our driveway. New this year: The markers are skinny, blue synthetic poles instead of the bigger wooden stakes of the decade past. Also,…

The stakes are high. If you want us to come plow your driveway again this winter, the letter said a while ago, send us a check for the season and we’ll come every time the white stuff lands at least 3 inches deep. Yes, thank you, I said with my signature. I knew they were…