It took three long snow-less years, but this morning we finally got to use our new snowblower. As I mentioned yesterday the snow started at rush hour yesterday afternoon and continued till after midnight, when we were hit with a few hours worth of freezing rain. All in all, at The Compound we had 4 inches of snow and 1 inch of ice on top.
Dad went out yesterday morning and plugged in the snowblower and tested its electric start. It fired right up. We were armed with two 5-gallon cans of gas just in case we had to fire up the generator, which I will add is two years old and is still in virgin condition. Dad got the snowblower out at about 6:30 this morning and less than a half an hour, he had our long driveway cleared. He said it would have gone quicker if he hadn't had the inch of ice on top, but the Troybilt chopped it up and plowed on through with no problem. He said that it practically blew by itself; all he had to do was guide it and turn the blower when he got to the end of the path. It was three years in the making, but the family is tickled to death that he finally got to use the snowblower.
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My husband would love that lil toy, LOL. I wish it would snow really good here, but we just got rain and ice. I hate ice.
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