My forearms are weary from moving snow

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Nemo, postaday2013, shoveling snow, snowfall, super storm

We got about two feet, it’s hard to tell with the wind out there blowing the snow this way and that. We have a snowblower but I don’t like to use it because it vibrates too much for my hands. I prefer moving snow the old fashioned way, with a shovel. It takes longer, but I like the cardio workout and the muscle strengthening of picking up shovel loads of snow. Bend from the knees, so not to strain your back and use your core muscles too, also not strain the back. I was sweating, because the snowdrift that I was working on was a good four feet in height, so I know that I got some very good exercise today.

My hubby took the pictures to document just how much snow we got last night. When the snow is brand new, everything looks so clean and beautiful. I have to admit that it took a while before it felt as if I had made a dent in the snow. Luckily the cold temperatures had made the snow light and fluffy, easy to shovel, as opposed to what they had gotten down South in Connecticut and New York. I definitely would not want to be shoveling down there because they got hit with wet, heavy snow; the worst type of snow to clear away, no matter what you choose to use, the shovel or the snow blower.

That’s my story regarding the Storm Nemo; some good cardio exercise done and now lounging in front of the t.v with a roaring fire and writing about it. Not bad for a Saturday in February.

Your perfect ending

Think of your favourite book or film. If you could change the ending in any way, what would you change? If not, why is it perfect?

I remember watching Gone with the Wind when I was growing up with my little sister and I don't know about her, but I always wanted Rhett to not say "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn". I think that Margaret Mitchell's ending had been universally accepted as not perfect, because a sequel came out of due to the reader's frustrations.(I wasn't the only one who wanted Scarlet with Rhett.) The sequel gave us Rhett and Scarlet, reunited at last, which is precisely what I had always wanted and I didn't mind the story. I suppose that the only way to give Rhett and Scarlet a fair chance at love ,for a second time, was to give them a different venue, in order to give Scarlett a chance to grow as a person, she was clearly too scarred by the horrors of the civil war. It is difficult to reconcile the trauma of witnessing horrific killings alongside a love story.

The clear issue with the grand book Gone With The Wind was that Margaret Mitchell developed a character, Scarlett, that was too big for one story. That was why her ending wasn't perfect and therefore the need for a long awaited sequel. One that I know wasn't well received, not in the way that the original story had been received. I however was happy in so far that Rhett and Scarlet were together at long last.