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Nancy Young[_8_] Nancy Young[_8_] is offline
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On 1/28/2015 3:21 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> Good for them. I have a 20' walk in front of the house from the
> driveway, then a couple of steps to the door. It will take me 20
> minutes to clear it. I figured if a kid going by wanted to do it, I'd
> pay 20 bucks. Not easy work, but still a good hourly rate. A bit
> later. there was a knock at the door. Two teenagers offered to shovel
> it for me. I asked how much and they wanted $25 apiece. No thanks.
> I'll do it later. I clear it for safety as we never use that door anyway.


We park our car at the end of the driveway, then shovel a path down
the sidewalk path over to the car. If I can get to the car, I don't
see any point to clearing the whole driveway. I also try to make
a path across the grass on both sides for the mail carrier to go
house to house.

nancy, lazy