tjsa Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Hey everyone, I am still alive. I have had a bad fall season, work and otherwise, but will not get into it right now as it would just turn into one huge rant. I have read the few e-mails people have sent me, but was in no mood to respond, and I am sorry for that. On to the lighter side of life, lol. We got flippin' hammered by snow saturday and into sunday morning. I got pics, but now I cannot even remember how to post them, lol. Haven't posted a pic since last May. Synopsis of my day today: Started the job of clearing snow at 10:30 am, and ended it at 5 pm. Had to force the door of the house open, took a couple of tries. The winds last night made huge drifts of compacted snow in front of all 3 doors into my house. Had to spend a half hour using the scoop just to get to the shed to get to my snowblower. Filled it up, and off I go. 1 hr. with the snowblower, and now I can move my car, as soon as I shovel all around it to be able to get into it. Move it back, and shovel both front steps. Move the snow from the steps and where the car was, and now tackle the compacted snow around and under the truck. Got to the drivers door to get in, and it won't start. Gots 2 batteries in it, both stone dead. Hook up the charger and leave it for 2 hrs. Move more snow in and around the truck and quad trailer, go back to the truck, still no go. Clear more snow from my neighbors driveway to get my car near my truck to boost it. Leave it boosting for 15 min. and up it starts. Back it down the driveway and leave it running to charge the battery more. Back to the scoop to move the snow from the area the truck was in and in front of the quad trailer. Huge pile of snow, moved 1/3rd of it. Snowblew that pile. Moved the other 1/3rd, snowblew that pile. Decided to see if the truck has sufficient charge in the battery for restart. NOT. Thats when I noticed I could not see the fuel level indicator.................CRAP!!!!!!!!!!. Leave the truck for now, to move the last 1/3rd of snow, and the snowblower dies, out of gas. Off to the shed and there is only a bit of gas left in the can I filled the snowblower with.....................no gas left in any of the other 5 cans I have............darn!!!!!!!!! The unused outboard can still has some also, so all gas left, in it goes, its mixed but who cares at this point. Fire up the snowblower, and finish the mound of snow I moved with the scoop. Now onto the gas meter, gotta move the snowmobile, usually starts within 10 pulls. NOPE.................DARN, turn on the fuel shutoff you idiot. It won't move, its seized, UUGGHHHHHH!!!!!! Shovel around it, and drag it sideways to blow a path to the meters of my house and my neighbor. Now onto the back deck, and I look up. Huge snow load on the back of my house. I own a story and a half, and it suffers from ice damming, so out comes the ladder and snow rake and I spend 1/2 an hour raking it. Front of house was fine, it was blown clear last night. Now I have a huge snow load on my deck with nowhere to put it until I get the flippin' snowmobile out of the way. It's getting late in the afternoon, time to call it a day, boost the truck, move it back, put the charger on it for overnight (hopefully the Anti-Christ starts tomorrow morning on its own power). Gonna have to walk to work tomorrow morning, but its only a 15 min. walk. Will be very nice to come home tomorrow and find the plows have gone down my street, but it is usually 2 days for my street after a big dump of snow. Worst thing about this is, if the plow hasn't been by, and I cannot get my car out of the driveway.....................I AM OUT OF BEER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dondorfish Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Now thats just plain funny!!! Sorry to hear you had such a rough day - but on the plus side, when you walk to work tomorrow - nobody else will have shovelled there walk and you'll be drugging through the snow yet one more time! Good luck Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greencoachdog Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Snow in Canada???... who'da thunk it??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Canada eh !! Good to hear from yah Thom....don't be a stranger, as your post count is suffering! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjsa Posted December 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Now thats just plain funny!!! Sorry to hear you had such a rough day - but on the plus side, when you walk to work tomorrow - nobody else will have shovelled there walk and you'll be drugging through the snow yet one more time!Good luck Don Oh heck Tracker, it wasn't all that rough, it was just long, with some minor setbacks, but after I got back in the house and reflected on the day, I had to laugh at the events, and post it for others to rib me about it, And, I just might need to put on the snowshoes to walk to work, but that wouldn't even raise an eyebrow up here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douG Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 WB, Thomas. Sry to hear about your day, but at least you're young. I used to comfort myself years ago by telling myself that there were at least 500 folks within 5 miles that are dealing with the same type of problem as me. Suck it up and move along there, buddy. You can't just stop posting whenever you want, btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motv8tr Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Now that's one heck of a day....Good to hear from you Tom....enjoy your walk this morning Maureen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 The joys of winter. I hate it here too. Ice all over the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Hiya Tom.Good to hear from ya bud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 well that makes my day look not too bad, so I can't complain after that one and the bad news is winter doesn't start for 18 more days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokey Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 Sorry to hear about all the snow up there and your rough start to the season. Hope it gets better for you soon up there and don't wait for the next snow day to stop by and say hello. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headhunter Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 Sounds like you spent the day with Cookslav! At least you were able to laugh it off... god gave us a sense of humour for a reason! HH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greencoachdog Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 Glad to see you're back Tom Maybe one of these days in the near future you'll be able to get some sort of order back in your life and go fishin' , and write us some of those excellent Thunder Bay skunk reports you're famous for!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suds Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 How could you allow yourself to run out of beer suds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjsa Posted December 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 How could you allow yourself to run out of beer suds It wasn't my fault...................HONEST!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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