In a wide-ranging day that included a Guys and Dolls rehearsal, a high-def simulcast of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, and an Easter Vigil worship service, I’m glad there was time for some old fashioned exercise with the ol’ snow shovel – although I sure hope this is going to be it for awhile.
The photo above looks like some kind of trick photography, but I swear to you that it’s not. This is a picture of Mr. Noble’s car as I found it this morning. When I telephoned him last night to ask about the end of choir tour, he mentioned in passing that he was in rather acute need of getting to the grocery store (after having been gone for almost a week on choir tour) but wasn’t yet dug out from the snowstorm. I offered to drive down when I was done shoveling our driveway (Peter Dennee has often done snow duty for Mr. Noble, and it was high time that I did my fair share.) I pictured it being a rather modest amount of work, given that it was only his stoop, a very short sidewalk, and the area around his car. (I’d done it once before) Little did I realize what a job it would be just to dig out the car. The car had on it every flake of snow which had fallen during choir tour – plus the 11 inches from yesterday’s storm – plus some extra snow which fell on the car from the garage roof above it. So I ended up having to wield my snow shovel to clear off the thickest of the snow on the car- mindful all the while that the car beneath all that snow was a Cadillac and that one scratch from my (metal) shovel would be most unwelcome. Fortunately, I got her done without mishap and by the time I was finished you could actually tell that it was a car sitting in that driveway. Later on in the morning, Mr. Noble called to say that a Norwegian elf had been busy doing a good deed- one of the sweetest thank you’s I’ve ever received.