It is 6 in the morning; I am standing inside my nice and warm house, looking at my front yard. The front porch, the drive way to the garage – the whole thing is covered with snow again.

Hurray! Not really. Seriously, this is thirds day in a row that I am dealing with snow removing and shoveling. It is 3, well, at least 2, more days  than I wanted to snow-shovel.

The first day was fun. The nice fluffy snowflakes everywhere, glistening with the sunlight from the far horizon. I even thought of making a snow-man after the shoveling was done, but gave up on the idea thinking I am not a kid and it is too cold to deal with snow any longer. Instead, I came inside and had a warm cup of steaming tea, while looking outside and admiring my own work.

The second morning – yesterday, I woke up to another 3-4inches of new snow coating. I ventured outside and did my thing again – shoveled the driveway and the porch; cleared the side street where neighborhood kids walk to (and from) the school-bus that makes a stop in front of our house every morning and every afternoon.

I was all done, and was about to come inside, that is when a big snow plow, that was clearing the streets in our area, dumped a big wall of snow in front of my drive way. That is the most annoying thing about this big snow plows, they push the snow off the street to the sides, but in the process, end up creating more headache for every household. I hate snow plows – just for the record.

Today, for the third day in a row I am staring at another 3-4 inches of snow. There was no snow forecast for last night. However, the winds blew the fluffy stuff all around, dumping some of it on my drive-way and front porch again. How nice!

I need to find a solution to my winter problem of snow. I need a wind-stopper, or something, to avoid snowy mess. Even better, there has to be some way to stop the snow all together.

After thinking for whole day about how to solve my snow problem, I realized that I was not making any sense. The chill of the cold probably got to my head, and slowed down my brain functions. I cannot stop the snow from falling; otherwise someone would have done some thing about it years ago. The Mother Nature is too mighty for anyone to mess with.

The genius I am, however, I did come up with a solution to my snow shoveling problem: go back to India or move to the west part of US – where there is no snow. How smart, right?

Or, stop wining and deal with the winter.

Back to the real world, my time is up; I just heard the snow plow go by. I got to put on my winter coat and snows shoes, and go outside to clear up the big wall of snow that he dumped in front of my drive-way AGAIN.

Happy winter!

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