RA>I don't have one either.  The landlord has one; I've seen it sitting on
  >the front porch.  My neighbors in this neighborhood and I are lucky.  In
  >the 14 years I've lived in this neighborhood, there has always been
  >somebody with a snowblower who has gone around and done all the sidewalks
  >on the block.  One of them made his own snowblowers with lawnmower
  >engines and borrowed parts.  They don't look or work like standard
  >snowblowers, but they do the job just as well and they're still running
I used to know a person (it's strange how people sometimes just
disappear from our lives) whose kid brother was trash picking lawn
mowers, and building working motorized stuff from them, when he was six.
A really talented kid.  I wonder whatever happened to that child?  Let's
see: he'd be about 22 or 23 now.  Hmmm .....  Maybe he went to college
or something ....
  >after 30 years.  I was outside today chopping ice.  We had freezing rain
  >followed by snow this morning.  The landlord shovelled, but didn't put
  >any sand out, so I got my ice chopper and went to work--I did need to get
  >out of the house.  I park on the street and have to move my car every day
  >with the alternate side parking.
Weird parking arrangement.  We are allowed to park on our streets
whenever we want, except for the fist and third Tuesdays of the month.
On those days we are not allowed to park on our streets at all.  We have
to park on somebody's else's street, so they can clean our streets with
this huge, LOUD machine.
                      Sondra
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