snow blowing

One day on a lovely winter afternoon in wales Maine, My house that sits on the very ridge of Oak hill mountain that me and my family of four live in. Me my Dad, my Mom, and used to be my sister. This house experienced a lovely winter snow storm one afternoon. We got about 6 inches of fresh snow this evening. Dad hollered into my room “Buddy, there is snow that needs to be blowed” and I replied “okay father”. So I went out on this lovely winter day and started up the snowblower. I did my whole entire driveway which takes roughly 45 minutes to an hour.I always do the driveway right on time so it doesn’t turn to ice from the cars driving on it and so the cars can get up the driveway. I then move out back to the patio we just put in this summer. That takes about 30 minutes for me to complete. At this point I have been out in the cold for about two hours and I realized that I still have two decks to snow blow. Each deck only takes about 10 minutes to do but it’s a very tedious task. So I start the little snowblower up and I do the bottom deck. The bottom deck is pretty important because my dog has to go across it to go to the bathroom, but the upper deck we only use to get into the hot tub. I thought to myself that nobody was going in the hot tub for a while so I’ll just leave it be and I didn’t end up snow blowing the upper deck. So a week later I go outside and that 6 inches of snow I decided to procrastinate had turned into 3 inches of solid ice on my whole deck, and it had to come off because with that weight on the supports plus the hot tub the supports could break. So I spent about 3 constant days chipping ice of that deck till it was down to wood again. So what I learned from this was to not procrastinate, even if it’s just snow blowing, because a 10 minute job can turn into a 3 day job. So don’t procrastinate in life because you will end up working even harder the second time.

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