random thoughts – Day 1,785 – (Tuesday) – cycles

The cycle of snow, light melting, and refreezing continues. Sometimes the asphalt is cleared and it dries and it’s fine, and other times it stays wet and refreezes into a barely visible, slick, neck-breaking situation. Today, while checking to see if the trash pickup missed yesterday had occurred yet (nope) and checking the mailbox (empty), I saw that the side driveway was mostly dry and the front walk and stairs that were cleared and salted on Monday had refrozen. Sort of.

Skim coat of ice over mucky water.

It turned out to be a skim coat of ice on top of an inch of mucky water that had collected in front of the steps. Shoveling water was added to the outdoor workout plan. The thin ice started crackling as soon as I tossed ice melt pellets on it, which was an interesting sound. Then I stepped on it to break it up because I like to stomp ice. I wish there had been more time to study (play in)  and photograph the lightly icy puddle, but I needed to get back to my desk.

Time played tricks today. I looked at the kitchen wall clock and thought it said 3:00, which was surprising and wonderful. After I blinked and looked again, and saw it was only 12:15, which was depressing. It took forever before it was really 3:00.

Somehow suddenly, it was 5:00 and I was dashing around the house to change clothes and get out the door to dance group. While driving, I noticed that the trash barrels were all still present and waiting for pickup on most of the street. It looks like the trash on one side of half the street was picked up. I’m sure there is a mechanism to report it, and maybe I’ll look it up. It would be nice if it got picked up on Wednesday, because there is snow in the forecast for Thursday, and the snowfall, plowing, shoveling cycle will begin again.