Blizzard Pictures and Slackerness

There are more, but here’s a first pass at some of the blizzardy pics from around the house.  As usual, click the pictures for a larger version in a new window.

First, Slacker Dude’s idea of a proper path, great for walking with a baby and luggage:

Which is why Deb and Sadie waited in the car while I dug out the back door, which didn’t take so long, thanks to the landlord having plowed extensively.  Including a large chunk of the lawn by the upper driveway and steps, so almost all the digging Slacker Dude had to do was a several foot path to the back street, pictured above.

Here’s what my poor Sentra in the front driveway looks like, but what might not be apparent is that the landlord plowed to within a couple inches of the rear bumper.  When I went looking for penetrating oil and tools to help the heating guy who was unable to bring all his stuff, all I had to do was swoosh some of the snow off the trunk to make it less heavy, unlock and open.  I thought I’d be fighting with a snow bank.

Slacker Dude managed not to move the remaining three trash barrels back by the garage before the storm.  Trash gets picked up Wednesday morning.  Sometimes he puts the trash out, but even when he does it sometimes takes until Sunday before he moves the empties back off the side of the road.  There were four, but one was lost to heavy wind a few weeks ago.  One I moved by the garage Friday, rather than being “cute” and putting rubbish in it on the side of the road.  The other two barrels, one standing and one on its side, are buried in the snow as pictured here:

Finally, a general view of the back of the building.  You can see Deb’s truck covered in snow, the van, and the van the heating guy drove.  I took the pictures while going back and forth into the cellar to check on him and see if he needed anything.

I don’t know if he knows it yet, but yesterday was a bad day to be Slacker Dude.  The landlord learned yesterday that he’s been skipping or doing a lousy job of shoveling, that he lost one of the barrels, and that the barrels were left to get buried in the snowbank.  Then Slacker Dude caused filthy water to spill down into our kitchen and into the cellar, damaging the wall, probably damaging the ceiling invisibly, damaging what is luckily some fairly neglible stuff of ours, and causing us a somewhat disgusting cleanup job.

Maybe our friend will get to move into that apartment after all.

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