It's Still Winter

I bought a new snow shovel today, no easy accomplishment. I've been looking since just after Christmas, because we ruined my old shovel on that driveway full of ice. That's the shovel Wayne bought maybe ten years ago. I do not know how long a snow shovel should last, but that was some tough ice. Ask Alyce.

Wayne could make quick work of our driveway and front walkway. It takes me a while longer. Thank goodness for friends and neighbors who have helped me this year, the year of our big snows.

Anyway, no one has had snow shovels. Not Home Depot or Zamzow's or Thriftway Lumber or Fred Meyer or Shopko or Walmart. Nobody. But today I went to Lowe's, and they had just received a shipment. I paid their $20, although I thought the price too much. Supply and demand at work, no doubt.

We have no snow now. But it's only January 12; winter is just getting started; surely it will snow again. Not that I really want more snow. Except I would like to try out my new shovel. Once.