My poor, poor driveway. It has never hurt anyone - on purpose...

So we finally had a significant snowfall! Woo to the hoo! Ya'll know I love the snow. It's so pretty & it makes everything look so clean.

But there's an ugly side to the snow. The side that causes me to want to become a teacher. And ya'll know that would mean a collapse of the public school system as we know it -'cuz I'm so patient & kind with kids & all... (BUT, one of my blogger friends said I should be a lunch lady. 'Cuz I can be mean/unpatient with kids & it's totally acceptable AND I would get days off for snow & summers off like teachers!. Hhmmm, career path change in my future?! Thanks, Denise! You're always thinking about me!) Ok, I digress... I wanna stomp my feet & throw myself on the floor & flail around. Because I gotta get out in this stuff to go to work. And although I'm spoiled & work only 5 miles from home (I will pause for hateful glares)... it's still a pain in the neck to get out on the country roads that may or may NOT be touched by a plow.

Alas, I am a giver & all so I trek my happy bootie into the office. (Oh, & let's not forget about that paycheck! Giver schmiver...)

This is the road in front of the house yesterday at 5:00 when I got home. It was weird because some places were all asphalt & then all of a sudden, the road was covered with snow again. And my poor little landscaping lights were up to their eyeballs in drifts of snow.

And of course, no sunshine doesn't help the snow melt any faster...But here's where the story gets good. Our driveway is a challenge. It's the stuff legends are made of. It's short & incredibly steep at the end. When you add these two things together, they equal disaster. It's impossible to get up enough speed to catapoult you up the steep incline. So that's why I have my faithful 4 wheel drive Explorer to get me to the office that gives me a paycheck. And of course, you know about B-rad's new diesel 4 wheel drive truck. Well, he got stuck in the middle of the drive way when he got home Tuesday. The open field is a perfect breeding ground for the winds to whip up snow drifts.He called me Tuesday afternoon yelling about how his truck was stuck & he had fallen in the driveway. He's fine, no worries - you can laugh - I did... So he decided he was gonna have to go over & get a tractor & move snow off the driveway. And ya'll know if I had been home I would've totally taken pictures...but I wasn't. Know where I was? At my parent's house waiting on Brad to get there for his birthday dinner. He was a tad late due to snow removal...

And I've been complaining about the driveway for months. With all the rain we had this past summer, the gravel was washed away. So the driveway was basically a mud path. Plus I'm pretty sure that the dirt eats the gravel because it just disappears all of a sudden. And because the driveway is SO steep, the ground has to be frozen to get a semi load of gravel to put down. Brad almost flipped the semi & trailer once putting gravel down when it wasn't frozen. That's right - I told you, legends...

And I would never say Brad is 'lazy'. 'Cuz he's not. He's one of the hardest working people I know. But because he works SO hard all the time - when he gets down time - he wants to do nothing. And I totally get that. So when it's 20 degrees for 6 weeks & the ground is frozen so you can get gravel, who wants to do that?! Not Brad... so when he was trying to scrape the snow off the driveway to get down to gravel? Uhm - little, teeny, tiny problem - not much gravel to get down too... (but I will give him brownie points for thinking ahead. He piled the snow & what gravel he did get in front of the shed so when the snow melts, the gravel will be left in a pile...)

So when the thaw finally happens - my driveway is going to really be in even worse shape. And ya'll know that just gives me something else to complain about. And Brad will give me excuses about how he can't get gravel because 'it's too warm', & that 'the ground is thawed out'. And do I 'want him to flip the semi?!?!?!'

Plus, it will be spring & he is 'going to have to start getting stuff ready to get out in the fields!' No time for pesky gravel loads! See, it's an endless circle...