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Samui Samu!!
Here in New Brunswick (yesterday) we had nearly 2 feet of snow drop in 12 hours. I spent my "snow day" - work was canceled - working 2x as hard shoveling the driveway (our gent that plows for us had his truck show its impermance :B).
Now we do not have a castle on top of a hill with 3 miles of drive to clear but none the less its a daunting task. I used that 3 hours of shoveling like a samu period, worked away at it with out thinking "UUUUGG this is going to take for ever" etc. Half a shovel load at a time, since i knew i had all day or longer to complete. I just took it easy. 2 hands on the shovel (hehe doesn't work well otherwise) and i actually enjoyed it. Despite the howling winds and constant snow in the face... i noted this when i was all done... i was frosty the zen-man?
Anywho no point to that i guess, just saying "hey thats cool" :B
Samui* Samu!!
Here is a couple of pics of our place around 7am yesterday (the snow was starting to subside then) oh and one from sunday for reference sake... i had just put up the "X"mas lights and took the shot so i could show my wife what they looked like (it was too cold for her to go look- funny thing was it wasn't too cold for ME to put them up :D LOL -20C [ -4 F])
before the storm:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2396/...2423c931_o.jpg
and after:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2037/...911431fb_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2366/...2cffeeae_o.jpg
Gassho
Dirk
*Sumui = cold :D tks to J for that tidbit :D
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Can't see the pic, but I used to love shovelling snow. We don't get much of it here and no drive way.
G,W
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Oh sorry will i know why :( ill fix it right now :)... There all done. My apologies.
Gassho
Dirk
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Very cool! Send some of that down my way, eh? All we're getting here is wind with nothing to show for it. I'll take snow any day! Rawr! :P
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Krid,
Shoveling is good exercise, and sounds like it can be good practice too!
Thanks for the reminder.
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We've had snow in NJ now a couple times already this year, enough to shovel. We had an ice storm too. Think it's gonna be a hairy winter.
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You might appreciate Billy Collins's poem "Shoveling Snow with Buddha." You can read it at http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Billy-Collins/813
Gassho,
Ben
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Thanks Krid. Quite a bit of snow there. Snow angels anyone? Or...snow buddhas?? :roll:
G,W
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Snow buddhas hehe! theyd look cool all lit up by those chri -er... Rohatsu lights (um yeah... totally representative of Buddha's Enlightenment) :D
Thanks for sharing that poem Ben! im going to share that with a few friends of mine.
This year (as it is every year) is being touted to be a tough winter. I think our news casting friends like to keep us freaked out a bit ;)
Anywho we're set to get some more tonight and tomorrow once it warms up...yeah its to cold to snow right now!??!? :lol
Gassho
Dirk