ICE...DAMN

Bridge City was great last weekend. Got down there late Friday night. (thanks again Rose for turning up the heat a little earlier so it would be nice and toasty when we got there). The ice was going to be the battle of the weekend. Saturday moring it was getting up and formulating the game plan on how to attack the dreaded ice mess. They designed the eave downspouts not very well so all the water drains out on to the sidewalk and then freezes and makes for a nice ice skating lane to the front door of the clubhouse. (thanks again Rose for trying to get rid of the ice with the the ice melt) Anyway, off to Ace Hardware to get a ice chopper. I am one that does not buy the cheap ones anymore after having purchased a couple of them in the past. They do not last so I was in search of the "MUTT" which is the brand we have at home. Well, it was no good. Could not find that brand but I did find an animal called the "BRUTE" It looked similar to the MUTT but had a longer handle. So I picked it up after tooling around the bike shop at Ace Bike and Fitness at Ace Hardware. (BTW-looked like they had some good prices on Trek road bikes there if anyone is interested) Anyway, got back to the clubhouse and dumped more ice melt on the offending party and let it do its magic while we headed to Wausa NE to pick up more of our beef from the meat locker and also picked up some beef sticks and salomi..YUM! Then it was back to attack the ice. It was decided to make a bit of a holding pound in the grass area for the water to drain into. The neighbor had purchased an extender for his downspout and it didn't fit so he installed it on ours and man this was just the ticket! After chopping and scooping and chopping and scooping I think we have the problem solved for now. Ok, so it had to be tweaked a bit sunday morning when the wind had blew the downspout away from the holding pond. We placed two small bricks one on each side of the downspout to keep it in place. The driveway was almost dry when we came back to the clubhouse later that day! I did complain to the association president about how the driveways and sidewalks are not being cleaned off as nice as they should be but not sure I got any satisfaction from his answer. I guess people were complaining more about them cleaning them off in a timely manner so they can get to work and not about the quality of work they are doing. To me it should be both but I guess I am a minority on this situation.

My Godparents invited all of us out for brunch on Sunday..YUM! Homemade waffles, eggs, bacon..the works. It was wonderful as always. We had a lot of fun sitting around and telling stories about our vacation and of course lots of laughing. It is so good for the soul to feed it with good food, laughter and family!