A Hellish Weekend... Not Much Better Today
I had been very slowly recovering from my long-lingering COVID symptoms but things drastically worsened again this past weekend. We had about 13 inches of snow Friday night into Saturday so we had to head outside to at least clear off the roof especially since the snow wasn't supposed to stop falling for another 12 hours or so. We didn't need a collapsed roof on top of all my health problems so we headed outside for a painful couple of hours. It turns out we had another three inches of snow through the night on Saturday night after we cleared off the roof so it is good that we took care of the roof when we did. I started up the snowblower and made my way toward the driveway. I had just broken through the deep snow with one slowblower-width path when it started making a terrible noise. I noticed that one of the four augers was no longer held in place with its pin. Fortunately, I had two spares on the control panel of the snowblower so that was a quick fix. I started up th