So, once again, we started shoveling in easy stages -- just the driveway (it's about 30 yards to the street) and not that we have to go anywhere.
I go in for a spell, to work of course, and I hear a motor running. Turns out it's the snow plow fairy -- guy from up the street on his tractor. He's done every house between us and the highway by now.
Gotta love it around here -- the guys with the stuff just love to go around using it -- wouldn't hear of taking money. Back up north, some neighbor kid would probably demand 20 bucks to shovel 20 feet of sidewalk . . .