“Oh the weather outside is frightful…”
Is how the song begins. Tonight the weather is not as frightful as it is icy. Gavin looked as if he wished for extra toes and claws as we slipped and slid on our trip outside. Patty, who is a bit lighter footed and coordinated, had less trouble with the yard.
Right before the sun set a crash of snow landed on the porch roof. It shook the entire house and sent the two dogs into fits of barking. It also drove me outside with more salt for the walk.
Much to our delight early today, we had an elf come by and shovel our walk. For years, we were the neighborhood elves who cleared the walks for everyone and it does my heart good to see someone returning the favor. Dear Hubby can no longer do it and having it done before I got out there with a snow shovel pleased me no end. I don’t mind shoveling snow but my muscles do a lot more complaining these days when I do it. Thank you dear elf whoever you are.
Tomorrow I’ll go start my car, crank the heat on high, drag out the ice scraper, and hope I can scrape and melt the icy snow off. The weather report says there’s more on the way so I’d best get that stuff off before Saturday night when the next wave of storms comes through.
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Doggonedmysteries 
If you do not have a car port to park under put a dry towel across the outside window and shut the towel in the doors if there is wind. Or anchor them down some how, then in the morning take them off and no ice.
Carport? That’d be nice. Around here we are considered lucky just to have off street parking. A dry towel would’ve been frozen solid to the windshield with how wet the snow + sleet + rain was. It also helps if one gets off one’s butt and goes outside and puts the roll out shield one has ON the windshield BEFORE the snowstorm. LOL We’re talking minivan here.