It's 2:20 p.m., and it's been snowing steadily---lightly, but nevertheless steadily---for 24 hours. We have long sidewalks along the side of the house on Pine Street and in front of the house on Main as well as a driveway. We've had what appears to be at least 7 inches of snow so far, but there has been no wind, so it has been snow coming down instead of being blown into drifts.
It could be a ton of shoveling, but there is a saint who lives on the other side of Pine, three houses down. He has a snowblower, and he shares! Oh, how he shares!
Every morning of a snowfall, he is out with his machine, cleaning the sidewalk all the way from his house up to Main, then on our side of the street as well. Then he plows a swath on our sidewalk in front all the way to the alley. Today he even cleaned out our driveway!
We already owe him, and we certainly will take over a gift certificate of some sort when the snow season is over. Knowing South Dakota, our big storms are still ahead in March and April, so perhaps the gift certificate is in order now, just so he remembers where we are when we have 20 inches of the white stuff instead of seven!
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