The snow clumps in the top were so heavy and hard to break up, we just started picking them up with our hands and tossing them! Luke played some rounds of snow basketball.
Even Faith "helped" out. She knew what to do with the shovel, even if she didn't get very much, and didn't toss the snow in the right place! She also wouldn't keep her mittens on, so she (and Grace) again were the first ones inside.
Success! Even a path for the mailman! That bit of shoveling took us about 40 minutes. Then it was on to Bob's van.
Fortunately the minivan is not so big, so we didn't have to shovel as much snow. It was a good thing, too, since we lost most of our helpers! Caleb, Jonathan, and Anna had discovered that they could slide down the slight hill in our front yard and go up on the big snowberm we had just made. Fun! So it was just Nathan, Luke, and me to finish off the shoveling.
Success here too! This bit of shoveling only took us about 15 more minutes. I sure was tired by the end of it all though. No time on the treadmill for me yesterday! A few months ago I bought 2 new shovels at Walmart, thereby guaranteeing, I thought, that we would get no significant snowfall this winter, LOL. I was very glad we had them the past few days--it meant that Nathan, Luke, and I could each have a big shovel, and the other kids could share the 4 little shovels we have. Very nice! One of the new shovels even has the curved handle, which I really like. I thought it helped a lot with the wet, heavy snow. Of course, what we really need is a Wovel . . .
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