the longer way around

on shoveling and removal...


we have a sidewalk apparently! who knew...cos i've rarely used it.  in the suburbs, there are supposed to be usable sidewalks, but in our silly little town, with no coffee shop, we have limited sidewalks. and when ours are snow covered, i guess we're meant to shovel them within 24 hrs. never mind that the edges of them are blocks of ice from the plow going repeatedly up to the corner (so much so the dirt is still pushed up from LAST winters' storms).

i find it amusing that we have to care for a sidewalk that isn't even ON our property (legally, the property goes to about 3 ft from the edge of the road). we have to keep the bushes off the sidewalk, we have to shovel it, BUT they can come and remove it if they want.

our neighbors across the street, no sidewalk, but mailboxes along the street. on property that isn't even theirs. they have to put it so many inches from the street. and when the plows (or any county owned vehicle including the giant public buses that SPEED down our road) bash the mail box making it a big pile of plastic and metal on the grass, the owner is totally responsible for it. however you can leave a mailbox (or even a box) on your grass and the lovely mailman will deposit mail into your box! i'm thinking that might just be OUR mailman, since he also walked the mail up the driveway to our invalid neighbours every day (the trash men brought the cans up too, but i bet they were paid extra for that!).

of course, there's also the retired slightly crazy neighbor who placed spikes along the bottom edges of his driveway to keep the mail-truck and trash trucks from going ONTO his driveway edge. :-(

 ~the end~