Nix on mornings
Jan. 12th, 2011 07:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marnanelI woke up to snow. In this part of the world it's the law that you have to shovel the pavement in front of your house, and our house is so shaped that we have rather a lot. Fin had shovelled a bit of the way, but I said I'd take over.
The world is rather beautiful this early in the morning. I put on my mittens and my waking-up music and got to work. After a while, the man who sometimes appears at the door with the snow, asking for money to shovel it, appeared. I don't know his name, but I think of him as Shovelling Matt. I apologised for doing the work myself, and he said, "That's all right. Do you know which streets might be good ones to shovel?"
After a few more plays of the music, Fin appeared with hot coffee for me. Then I passed a neighbour I don't recognise, who looked a bit like John Linnell and was clearing the snow off his car. He said, "You have quite a stretch. Let me help you." We started from opposite ends of the stretch, and worked towards one another until there was only one shovelful left. He said, "Now this is your bit."
It was a good way to start the day.
The world is rather beautiful this early in the morning. I put on my mittens and my waking-up music and got to work. After a while, the man who sometimes appears at the door with the snow, asking for money to shovel it, appeared. I don't know his name, but I think of him as Shovelling Matt. I apologised for doing the work myself, and he said, "That's all right. Do you know which streets might be good ones to shovel?"
After a few more plays of the music, Fin appeared with hot coffee for me. Then I passed a neighbour I don't recognise, who looked a bit like John Linnell and was clearing the snow off his car. He said, "You have quite a stretch. Let me help you." We started from opposite ends of the stretch, and worked towards one another until there was only one shovelful left. He said, "Now this is your bit."
It was a good way to start the day.
