[pontiacpetey]

Scored a free snowblower today-with a hitch LOL.

Long story short, I met an old lady at Home Depot a few months ago who asked me if the truck I was driving was mine, I said "sure, why?" She wanted to know if I could deliver some mulch she wanted to buy because the bags were too heavy to get out of her car and home depot wanted "to rip her off for 60 dollars to deliver and she didn't trust the mexicans and the darkies"-her words. She said she could pay me for my time so I agreed,
she was close by and I had the time. I bring the truck to the back and she loads me up 30 bags!! Oh crap, I thought it would be 4 bags or so. I said I would do it so here I am delivering mulch for her, not too big of a deal until I had to haul it all to her back yard! We got to talking and she turned out to be the proverbial sweet old granny, widowed a few years ago, her husband was a WWII veteran, he built her house, did the yard and all that kind of stuff. So anyway I finished up and was getting ready to go, she brings me a beer and some cookies LOL.
She offered me 10 dollars for my services, so I fgured she didn't have much $$$ and 10 dollars in 1940's money was big time. I told her the beer was fine and the cookies were the tip. Damn good homemade cookies too.

She has called me once in a while since then to fix this or haul that, the cookies are always good and the beer always cold. Today she called and asked me if I could help her get her car dug out and shovel her sidewalk since she hurt her hip She had an old snowblower her husband bought a long time ago and I could use it.
The blower was a beast, at first i was bummed because it was electric but man that thing can throw snow! It is an old Sears one from the 70's, it weighs about 70 lbs and is all metal-quality stuff. I recon probably 40 lbs of it is the motor. Anyway I wound up doing the whole drive and her sidewalk and her neighbors drive too. It was fun cause the snowblower was awesome. When I was done she asked me if I wanted to use it for my house, naturally I jumped on that offer. She told me I could keep it too if I wanted the only condition was I had to do her driveway when she needed it. Overall a good day.

So if anyone needs their drive done and you have a long enough extension cord, I'm there.