This past weekend was a great time to take a break and enjoy a cup of coffee at your favorite neighborhood bistro, or on your deck, and let the warm sun work away on your ice and snow.
If you have been keeping up with our blog, you know we’ve been using panty hose stuffed with sodium chloride on our ice-dammed roof edges, we’ve drilled holes in our soffits, and we’ve banged and chipped to break the ice in our downspouts. I even climbed ladders to pull 18 inches of snow off the roof with a homemade roofrake and poured boiling water into the top of our two story downspouts. We have used more than ten gallons of gas in our snow blower and 200 pounds of salt on our driveway. They all worked a little bit, until sunset, that is when everything froze again.
Saturday and Sunday, God took over and gave us sun. It was like one massive dose of a decongestant kicking in. Everything ran. All we had to do was sitback and take a break from all our own feeble deicing attempts and watch the sun take over. I know we’re not suppose to waste time watching water boil, but kicking back with a cup of coffee watching weeks of ice and snow buildup melt away is a bigger thrill than I ever imagined.
All things considered, it has been a beautiful winter and I wouldn’t trade it for all the warm weather anywhere, even though my wife might. Each season has it’s own challenges and each is marked by it’s own unique beauty.
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