Winter lament

Put gas in the snowthower, engage the choke, pull the cord, snowthower fires up - it's 5:30am, dark and I'm cold and tired. Did enough to clear the driveway and part of the parking area, then a bit of the deck and a dog path along the backyard fence. That took about an hour, eventually got to work, almost twice the usual time. Not bad considering that once I got to the state road it was a line of traffic most of the way then all the traffic lights on the way to intown Portland would go through two or three cycles before I could get by to the next one. Much prefer weekend snow but the odds are 5 to 2 against me.