Helen, I sure am glad I don't have that problem and wish you didn't either. When I was growing up in Arkansas, I was too young to be shoveling snow. This was during the depression and not too many people had any money to pay for that kind of thing. That notwithstanding, I probably wouldn't have done it anyhow. Not that I was lazy, I just didn't like to be out in cold weather. Didn't like it when I was a kid and still don't like it. I remember that Mother would dress us up in snow suits and send us out to play when there was snow on the ground. I was good for maybe five minutes then it was back inside where it was warm. The temperature here seldom gets to freezing...maybe two or three nights during December to January. I don't like to be outside if the temperature is below 50 degrees. I am not built for cold weather. Robert E. Paty, Scottsdale, AZ aka Mad Hatter > From: helenware@verizon.net > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:32:26 -0500 > Subject: [ML] snow shoveling > > How about we get back to some good old fashioned memories? > I have been thinking about all the snow I have had to shovel over my life. > As a kid it was fun, as I got close to my teens-I shoveled my grandparents > driveway and walks and I earned a whole fifty cents(yes,.50)in 1954 or 55 > that was a good amount of money for a girl to have in her pocket! > As we got older we shoveled to help our folks etc. so they could go to work > or the corner store for cigarettes etc. or so the bread or milkman could > deliver on the usual days. > After I was married, I loved going out and clearing the steps and walks-my > husband did the driveway with a plow. As the kids grew they would help > shovel until they were old enough to do it all and I stayed inside and made > the hot chocolate! > Now in my old age-there are no kids anyplace who care to help shovel my car > out--on Sunday I blew out my left knee shoveling--was awake all night in > pain-yesterday the swelling was really huge---iced it down all day, the > swelling is going down now but darn-someone should help the old folks! We > have asked Boy Scout Troop, CYO at churches,and all we can think of and > nobody lets their kids go shovel walks are dig out cars to make a few $$$$. > Now we have had another 8 or more inches of snow today---------bring back > the good old days when kids knocked at the door to see if you wanted them to > shovel for you!!!! > > Helen, > in cold and very snowy New England! > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Somehow I don't have any memories of shoveling snow. I have one sister who is about two years than I am and she didn't shovel snow either. We had rather a long driveway and I think my dad just drove through it once on the way to work. He was a milk man and probably parked in the middle of the street while he went up to the houses and back. I do remember our street got plowed with a road grader--no big plows like we have now. I have to get some pictures out that we took as "pin up" pictures to send to all the guys we wrote to around the world in WW2. I can't believe we got our two piece suits on and posed in the snow. Youth--long gone. Sure wish I still had the body to do something that silly. Grace On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 4:47 PM, ROBERT E PATY <dback1935@msn.com> wrote: > Helen, > > I sure am glad I don't have that problem and wish you didn't either. When > I was growing up in Arkansas, I was too young to be shoveling snow. This > was during the depression and not too many people had any money to pay for > that kind of thing. That notwithstanding, I probably wouldn't have done it > anyhow. Not that I was lazy, I just didn't like to be out in cold weather. > Didn't like it when I was a kid and still don't like it. I remember that > Mother would dress us up in snow suits and send us out to play when there > was snow on the ground. I was good for maybe five minutes then it was back > inside where it was warm. The temperature here seldom gets to > freezing...maybe two or three nights during December to January. I don't > like to be outside if the temperature is below 50 degrees. I am not built > for cold weather. > Robert E. Paty, Scottsdale, AZ aka Mad Hatter > > > From: helenware@verizon.net > > To: memory-lane@rootsweb.com > > Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:32:26 -0500 > > Subject: [ML] snow shoveling > > > > How about we get back to some good old fashioned memories? > > I have been thinking about all the snow I have had to shovel over my > life. > > As a kid it was fun, as I got close to my teens-I shoveled my > grandparents > > driveway and walks and I earned a whole fifty cents(yes,.50)in 1954 or 55 > > that was a good amount of money for a girl to have in her pocket! > > As we got older we shoveled to help our folks etc. so they could go to > work > > or the corner store for cigarettes etc. or so the bread or milkman could > > deliver on the usual days. > > After I was married, I loved going out and clearing the steps and > walks-my > > husband did the driveway with a plow. As the kids grew they would help > > shovel until they were old enough to do it all and I stayed inside and > made > > the hot chocolate! > > Now in my old age-there are no kids anyplace who care to help shovel my > car > > out--on Sunday I blew out my left knee shoveling--was awake all night in > > pain-yesterday the swelling was really huge---iced it down all day, the > > swelling is going down now but darn-someone should help the old folks! We > > have asked Boy Scout Troop, CYO at churches,and all we can think of and > > nobody lets their kids go shovel walks are dig out cars to make a few > $$$$. > > Now we have had another 8 or more inches of snow today---------bring back > > the good old days when kids knocked at the door to see if you wanted > them to > > shovel for you!!!! > > > > Helen, > > in cold and very snowy New England! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >