Kindness 58

I hope that number's right, if it's not, I'll change it tomorrow. Today was another repeat of a good deed, but here's my defense. It snowed a lot last night. There was about 6 inches of snow on our driveway, likewise on our neighbour's driveway. I took the kiddies out and set them up with dirt toys (which double as snow toys in our house), and got to work.

I shovelled both driveways, and here is why it's okay that it's redundant: It's not the normal, light, fluffy snow that is almost a pleasure to shovel. It's not even the medium snow that's sticky and a little heavier. It's the heaviest kind of packing snow, that's sticky and uncooperative and just wet. It took me over an hour to get both driveways done the first time, and then I had to go over it again to get rid of all the chunks of ice.

So in the end it took me about 75 minutes to clear both driveways, and that's what I am counting as my kindness of the day. An aside: I offered to go out and shovel a driveway last night for new neighbours moving in on the other side. They came over to ask for a shovel because the people who moved out haven't cleared the driveway in a month. My husband went out to do it. I didn't offer his services, but apparently (wait for it) if a woman offers to do a man's job then the husband's got to do it because it's not manly to let his wife do work. Huh? Whatever. I still count it as a kindness because I wanted to do it!