Adam & Amber’s Blog

I grew up on the west coast of Michigan, went to school in the Northern U.P. of Michigan, and now live in Minnesota. Point is I have always lived around snow and truth be told Minnesota has the least snow fall of any place I have lived (although that is made up for by being the coldest place I have ever lived). Most of the time I love the snow, it is beautiful to look at and fun to play in. That being said there is a dark side to all this winter bliss, snow removal. Amber and I do not yet own a snow blower (from our time outside this morning, we might be the only ones on the block that don’t), this means we get to remove our snow the old fashioned way shoveling.

Perhaps I am getting ahead of myself. This weekend Southern Minnesota had a blizzard. Judging from the snow in our driveway, which was between 6 inches and over 2 feet deep (after I already shoveled once yesterday), I would bet we got over 15 inches since Friday afternoon. The snow wasn’t so bad, it was the fact that we first had 1/4 inch of ice first is what made things interesting. Our temperatures hovered around freezing so most of what fell was either freezing rain or really heavy snow. Today Amber and I spent the better part of 2 hours shoveling the driveway while trying our hardest not to slip down it.

I did take advantage of my time outside by taking a few pictures, check them out here.