Winter Perspective #3
Norm cleared his roof and driveway by hand the first year he moved into this old shack. Boy did that suck!! Blame it on youthful ignorance. By the end of that first winter, Norm was at his local hardware store. And Old Faithful was purchased. And faithful she was, as she spit tons of snow over the years. Things started to go. (She won't reverse anymore.) Being a cheap Yankee, Norm has really avoided paying anybody to repair her. He just pulls it back himself.
After our last major storm, (about 10 days ago) it wouldn't go forward. Norm felt he may be finally forced to pay someone to pick-up and service Old Faithful. Norm decided to wheel her into the kitchen and look under the hood. And with a little bit of elbow grease and luck, she was up and running by Sunday night!!
posted by norm at 9:12 PM
6 Comments:
Well done! And I love the wood floors.
Nice work! You are a handy guy to have around.
I like how you assign female gender to a blower. >:)~
Norm put those planks down, Diane!! Thanks.
Mish, thank-you. Norm finds it sucks, but it also is rewarding.
LA, it's great you picked up on that. Norm didn't post gender intentional. But he loves women.
So it all works out.
I once had a car that was like Old Faithful. And she too wouldn't reverse after 12 years. It was tricky when parking at the mall.
BTW: Color me fake as my Pergo when I say that I am not jealous of those hardwood floors.
Thanks Kook, but they're actually white pine. Norm tacked them down and used that polyurethane stuff. (Which I think is not used in CA.)
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