Four foot drifts? No problem! I did get out a bit during the blizzard yesterday and cleared about a yard horizontally and maybe 18” deep, but the wind was blowing and it was still snowing.
Seeing my neighbors across the street and next door out this morning shoveling 
their sidewalks and driveways brought me out again. As a native Chicagoan, I relish the thought of shoveling snow, at least for a while. But as parts of my driveway were over 4’ deep in drifts and the “shovel by layers” technique was necessary (at least for me, since the whole lifting 4’ of snow was too heavy) it was slow going. Then I noticed my neighbors had their 20-ish son shoveling with abandon and about to reach my property line.
A short conversation brought him over the line and working on my driveway. To me the worst part is getting through what the snow plow pushed aside and into the cleared street, but this was no problem for George (left) who started at the bottom of the driveway. I shoveled from the top of the driveway for about an hour but before I met him (like the Transcontinental Railroad which joined east and west in 1869 in Promontory Summit, Utah Territory) in the middle of the driveway, aches and pains took over and I took a break. (You know how I love throwing history into my stories.) 
Voila! Before I knew it, he had finished the driveway and the walk to my front door. But then the most unbelievable thing happened--he refused any money for his hard work. Now that’s what you call NEIGHBORLY! South Graylyn Crest was the place to be in the aftermath of a blizzard, for sure!
If you are looking for new neighbors, call me, Carolyn Roland--your Older and Historic Homes Resource in Delaware and Southern Chester County, Pennsylvania.
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