Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2010

I'm 63 and I never heard that one!

I'm in the USA.  See below. :)

I think the last I heard it was from Ronnie Milsap in 1980, joking about
his band members.

¬R   http://users.bestweb.net/~notr/bluemoon.html
"Nothing says 'Thursday' quite like Ira Fusfeld."

Snow photos from McLean, VA at:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yhuoal2

Not really.   Almost my entire yard (corner townhouse yard, not that
small but it seems like it is) was filled with snow to 6 inches from
the top of my fence.  My fence is 42 inches high.  The only places
with less snow were under trees.  A couple places drifts outside the
fence reached the top of the fence.

Saturday, I think, I shoveled about 15 feet from the front door, just
10 inches wide (I don't know why people shovel the whole width of
their sidewalk or driveway).  I did that to use a 20 foot telescoping
aluminum pole I have to knock the snow off of a couple fir trees and a
pine tree.  This morning I notice that one of those branches broke off
anyhow, at the trunk.   Oh well.  

I lost a section of another fir tree in my back yard with the storm a
couple weeks ago.  But if it hadn't crack then (longitudially, a foot
long up the middle of the sub-trunk), it would have broken this time.

I havent' touched my car.  I haven't gotten closer to it than 30 feet.
Because of trees, I can't even see it.  There is a slim chance the
roof will have ripped because of the weight of the snow.  I let it
stay buried for a week last year, when I was recuperating from surgery
iirc, but this time the little tears in the roof are a tiny bit
longer, and there is a lot more show. 28" instead of 16"?  I'm
probably going to put a new top on, myself, in the spring.  So I hope
the top hasn't ripped/collapsed now.  Not that it will cause much
additional damage.  I can brush the snow out and any that I don't get
will evaporate, after melting or before.  The car has been rained on
with the top down several times before.  So it won't cause much damage
but it will be difficult to ride around in it if it has a top with a
big hole in it.  Cold, and it will rain also sometimes.  When it's
parked I have a vinyl cover, and also a commercial size garbage bag,
big enough to cover the whole roof, but I can't use those when the car
is moving.

But on Sunday, my next door neighbor, who doesn't really like me (I
don't know why not.  I'm a wonderful guy.) used his snow blower to
clean his walk, and to do that he has to clean my walk first, becaus
it is between his back yard and his walk (unusual layout here at the
corner) So now I only have about 25 feet to get to where he has
cleaned, and it's not that deep.

Anyhow, in 30 minutes I'm going to shovel out to where the neighbor
snow-blew, and walk the rest of the way and sweep the snow off the
car.  If it doesn't snow too much more, I may be going out of town on
wednesday, in someone else's car, so I'll just see how much melts by
next Sunday night when I get back.

I'll be with you in an eroded truss