More Snow...

Actually, it's stopped snowing now. The original weather forecast had been rain but there was a drop in the temperature so we had snow since early this morning. Anyways, since it's stopped I can hear someone shoveling the snow outside our apartment building. Which is nice. Because I'm not volunteering to do it again. At least not for a while. Did my share on Christmas Eve. It had been done early that day so I did the afternoon/evening round. I wasn't shoveling light, fluffy stuff. It was the compressed stuff that would've been in danger of becoming a layer of ice.

What I found interesting (as opposed to tiring) was the reactions of people who walked by. A couple of people said "Thank-you". A couple of people engaged me in brief exchanges of chit-chat. Some walked up the parts I had cleared and waited for me to stop briefly so they could get by me. And then there were the ones who didn't walk up the part I had cleared and stomped up the part I would eventually be shoveling. Those people I just didn't quite understand. I guess it hadn't occurred to them that they were, even to a small degree, stomping on the stuff I would be shoveling and likely contributing to making it more arduous to remove. Or something to that effect...