I’ve spent quality time trying to find dirt/grit to spread on our ever-expanding ICE patches these past weeks. And then we get melted and refrozen…..and/or ……it snows another half-inch. “Sanding” the ice is a really good method of preventing falls. But I have to find an endlessly available supply of dirt that isn’t frozen solid. Found a good patch today and covered it so the snow wouldn’t get it wet. 🙂
I looked outside the back door this morning and wailed: ” It snowed AGAIN?” So before the dog tramps her footprints all over, I went out with the broom and swept it AGAIN….path all the way to gate of the goat yard….to the goat house to open that door….down steepness over what used to be stairs….to the other gate…. Our STEEP hills and ice or packed snow do NOT mix well.
Now tonite, it’s snowing….AGAIN. Using a LOT of energy just sweeping the same feet of frozen dirt over and over this winter. Probably use less energy if I just had to shovel a foot of snow ONCE. Like being pecked to death by ducks….as they say. One fall on ice could change the equation of our lives….and DH and I have both fallen a couple times already, despite all our efforts to avoid it.
OldMtWoman …..however, in the SW we always say: “But we need the moisture“…