texaslion's blog post - Ya just gotta have the right tools to do a job right!

It is the fourth consecutive day below freezing and the first day out of the 20's. I know that doesn't sound like much to y'all but honestly down here it is big stuff. Ok think about it, most of you couldn't take our August. Fifteen minutes outside in our summer and you have developed a good base for your tan. Now honestly, that doesn't sound bad for some of your alabaster white legged folks now does it.

So, the storm has finally subsided after 3 1/2 days of constant light freezing rain. My truck was a block of ice. Now one of those windshield scrapper wasn't going to work to get an inch thick, I mean solid inch and in some areas thicker than that of ice off. So here is what I did. I used an impact hammer to shock the ice and break its hold. And it worked as I tapped it you could see the spidered cracks under the ice appear and then just wisk it off. It worked so well that a neighbor using one of those plastic windshield scrappers came over to see what my technique was. Yup he rushed back and duplicated it, lol.

So now I have all this shattered ice around me and I was slipping and sliding like I was trying to cross a frozen pond in Minnesota or Maine or Michigan ( did ya notice I used 3 M states up north : - ) almost a ligitimate illiteration) or wherever. So how to fix this........I got my leaf rake. Up it took all the bits and I moved them out to the gutter.

So now I'm sitting inside enjoying the warmth and hoping there isn't another ice storm soon.