Snow Removal

I think it's safe to say that Spring is right around the corner! The sun is coming out a little more, it's not dark for so many hours of the day, and it's been consistently in the 30's this week! We are very excited, to say the least. This last week I had a new rule that the kids weren't allowed to watch any tv or play any electronic games until they had played outside for at least an hour. It's been a wonderful rule :). It also means that the city has been trying to help the process along by removing a lot of snow. The kids had fun watching the really big trucks do all their work. Here's how it works..

These big trucks scrape it off the sides and push it into the middle of the road, one long line up the road.
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 Then this other machine comes, sucks up all the snow and blows it out into this big truck. If you look carefully, you can see the yellow edge of it, and the snow pouring in from the top back there.

 Then they haul it off to the snow dumping sites. And voila! The main streets are all clear now, and the neighborhood streets are starting to melt. It gets all slushy in the day, then freezes again at night. But we are definitely making progress toward winter's end!