shoveling sucks

Snow days are typically lots of fun. I don’t have to go to school, I get to hang out with friends, and I have time to catch up on my work. There is one thing about snow days however that I truly can’t stand: shoveling my driveway.

My house backs up right next to a cornfield in Savoy. My drive way faces the North and there is a cornfield directly to the West with nothing to block the wind in between.  Of course the wind always blows across the field directly at my house, thus taking a ton of snow. The result is huge snow drifts all our yard and especially in our driveway. This means that I might have two feet of snow waiting for me to shovel when we might have only had a few inches of snow. When I clear the driveway there are two huge snow piles on either side of the driveway. If there is even a slight amount of wind these piles turn into giant drifts that lead to me having to plow the entire driveway yet again about two hours later. All the while I get to look at my neighbor’s driveway across the street which faces the field just like mine, but they have two giant trees that block all the snow and their driveway is perfectly clear without them having to do any work!

Most of us probably had to shovel a little bit over the weekend and those of you who did you were probably surprised to find two inches of ice at the bottom of all that snow. I spent two hours this morning, on my day off, hacking at ice and shoveling snow for two hours to clear my tiny driveway... Of course I receive little to no help from my other family members my brother is super lazy, my mom is tiny and incapable of shoveling large quantities of snow efficiently, and my dad is in a wheelchair so I get to do it all by myself or with the most minimal of help. I hate shoveling and I’m going to have a heated driveway in the future.