Heat Wave, 23 degrees!!

After the single digits it feels like a heat wave at 23 degrees!! Our neighbor Rick ran his junky loud snowblower waking us at midnight but luckily he did because our frozen hot water pipe had opened! Luckily I heard it. Bill raced down to the cellar in his cobalt blue waffled long-johns I got at the free store 10 years ago and shut off the water. He felt terrible the spigot was open. I felt grateful we didn't have a flood. "Go forward," I said. We've had a lot of plumbing issues. 150 year old house.

I couldn't wait until 3AM. I got up and the snow was two feet deep! I couldn't open the back door. I shoveled a path to the basement door just in case of emergency, and to the parking lot. Then I went out front and heard voices. I stayed hidden for a while not wanting to attract attention. There were five guys in peanut butter colored Cartthart coveralls shoveling the walkway of the Rosie building at the corner. They didn't see me. I was relieved to know it was not a group of drunks as has happened years before.

That was 27 years ago when my neighbor Terry was alone shoveling. A drunk came and tried to take the shovel from her to "help her" I intervened and we became friends. Terry Charpentier. I was sad when she was forced by her daughter to move to the mountains down south, away from her community.