Things I Learned Today

• 1.  I heard somewhere that illness can fester for 48-72 hours.  This has proven true and my Saturday night gallivanting has let me feeling like pooh.
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• 2.  I'm very thankful I have a roof over my head and a heat blanket on my bed.  
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• 3.  Shoveling snow is not fun.  Especially shoveling 8 inches of snow that has fallen on top of the 3 inches that didn't melt before.
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• 4.  Shoveling snow is even less fun when you're sick =(
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• 5.  I finally understand what Marc was talking about the other day when he said his back hurt from shoveling snow.  It's only been like an hour and I'm in quite a bit of pain...
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• 6.  ...most of the pain is probably due to the fact that I'm sick.
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• 7.  Snow shoveling is the perfect chore for children.  Maybe we should start trying to have kids soon...
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• 8.  ...or maybe we will just adopt a 15 year old male athlete who gets straight A's and has an affinity for the arts.  That seems easier than growing one ourselves =)

Standing by my car in what should be the driveway.  Just how deep is it, you ask?

This deep.  That's a snow shovel standing on it's own in powder.

"Before" shot.  Standing in the street - you should be seeing a driveway, walkway and sidewalk...

My first pass.  This took about 45 minutes and I had to stop for a little "tea and tylenol" break =)

View of where I stopped on the sidewalk.  I was stressed that I didn't finish right away because the mailman was coming soon!

One more..."Before"...

...and "After"!  What's sad is that I took this picture about 30 minutes after I finished and there's already a little layer of snow covering my work.  But still...I'm quite proud for my first time shoveling and feeling under the weather =)

And one last shot of Polly playing in the backyard...frolicking over the walkway I just cleared =)