[78-L] Ho Ho Ho^

[David Lennick]

Michael Biel wrote:
> Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> 
>> Seasons greetings to all!   Mal Rockwell
>>   
> 
> David Lennick wrote:
>> Easy for you to say!
>> dl (just cleared the 50-foot driveway for the seventh time in a week)
>>   
> 
> Park your car at the STREET END of the driveway, not by the garage 
> door.  Then all you have to shovel is the mound left by the street 
> plow.  

That's where it is now..but you've been here, so you know we're on a fairly 
busy semi-rural road, and the genius who built this place made the driveway 
very narrow at the street end. Barely enough room to get out of the car when I 
park halfway up (with all the snow we've had). And now, boys and girls, it's 
raining.

> I know you are not parking your car in your garage because it is 
> filled with records.  

And they're all 78s, so we're not off topic.

> I had always wanted a garage for my car, but the 
> after the first time I shoveled my uphill driveway -- which was the day 
> after I moved in 31 years ago -- I never put the car into the garage 
> again and always parked at the top of the driveway right by the street.  
> And in all the years we had two cars, one was put on a gravel inlet on 
> the street.  That's where the van is now, facing downhill ready to pull 
> right into the road.

There's a turnaround at the top of the driveway, but the second snowfall killed 
that idea, and the driveway curves. It took me seven years to figure exactly 
what I should be seeing in order to back out straight. I won't have access to 
the on-site storage unit (a shipping container) for months.

Last time I parked a car in a garage was probably in the early 80s, in Edmonton 
(till THAT garage got filled with records as well).
> 
> Mike  (my shoveling days are over, anyway -- if it doesn't kill me, my 
> doctors will) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

I'm gettin' too old for this as well..

dl