The roads around hear finally mostlly clear, except the part where
> my driveway hits the road. And, that's between two hills. So, another
> day at home. But, even as I walked back to the house, from checking the
> trash can, to see if the trash men had been by, they hadn't, a road
> scraper came by, and made two passed on that one slick place. Aha, so,
> I can get to town, if I can get out of the drive.
>
> When you come into my drive, it has a slope for 50 feet or so, then
> it levels, then a short slope down again. I was parked on the short
> slope up. Needless to say, with the crust on the snow, I didn't make
> more then about 6 feet before I lost traction. No prob. Back up, and
> into the shop. In about 2 minutes I had a plastic back with about 2
> gallons of sawdust in it. Spread about a gallon or so, where my rear
> wheels would go, took off, and viola, instant traction. Once I got on
> the road, and past the few slick spots the scraper had left, on my way.
> Stopped at the bank, post office, store, sandwich place, and back home.
> My son had been in and out of the drive several times with his 4X4
> truck, so made it up the first slope, no prob.
>
> Two morals here. One is, if I didn't have a shop, I would never
> have had any sawdust to sprinkle. And, two, if I had cleaned the shop,
> I would never have had any sawdust to sprinkle.
>
> Basically, life is good.
>
> JOAT
> There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, it's
> probably in Tennessee --that says, fool me once, shame on ... shame on
> you. Fool me ... You can't get fooled again..
> - G.W. Bush quoted by the Baltimore Sun - Oct 6, 2002
>
> Life just ain't life without good music. - JOAT
> Web Page Update 28 Jan 2004.
> Some tunes I like.
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