A short thought - even when you think you are prepared you can get bit in the butt by not double checking.

Spent quite a bit of time having a friend prep my snow blowers (yeah, I have two of them - long story) this past fall so that I could just wheel them out and rock and roll when the time came.  Yet another instance of my feeling so smart when I really wasn't!

This morning I found out the hard way that "ready" does not necessarily mean "gassed up".  Just as I was struggling through the plow pile at the end of the driveway my snow blower ran out of gas.  Did I mention it was raining?  and windy? and I couldn't get the machine out of the snowbank?

So walk around the house, get the gas cans and the gas "gloves" and trudge back up and carefully (using the funnel) gas the snow blower back up and pray it started easily.  I lucked out this time - won't be a second time!  I also know that you aren't supposed to gas up anything when it's hot but it wasn't any more by the time I got back to it.

So think about the things you are doing to get ready for winter/bad weather/bad juju and double check a few of them.  I don't know about you but I hate having to eat off the mantle (which I don't have) because my butt is sore from getting chewed on by circumstances I could have controlled!

Nuff said...