We left Minnesota two days earlier than expected to beat the wild weather pattern that was on its way into the area. We decided spending a few extra days in the home country would be preferable to spending Christmas Eve in a ditch.
While we were away we tracked the local weather as best we could wondering just how thick and high the white stuff on our driveway would be when we returned. It sounded like a substantial wall would await us after finding out the neighbors up the street had shoveled their driveway four times in three days.
The day we were to return to Minneapolis a friend emailed us and said he swung by our house and the driveway looked pretty clean. Later another friend said a man on a John Deere tractor had gone up and down the street clearing driveways that were still piled with snow.
Having arrived home Thursday night at 11:00 I might have shoveled until sunrise had this kind stranger not tackled it for me. I would like to nominate the Good Samaritan (whoever he is) for neighborhood Man of the Year and wish him a blessed and bright 2010. May his little green tractor be forever full of gas!
My Snow Angel might look something like this
Some pictures of the house two days later...
