Can We Talk 2

Snow and Ice Bound

         This is a secret. I am old, but don't tell anyone. But I am independent and live alone. I don't have anyone close by to shovel my walkway or dig out my car. I do have a kind neighbor about the same age with a snowplow. He always plows out my driveway which is fairly long; mine lies beside his. He has back trouble, but he can steer that plow. He knows I have heart trouble. So now I have a clear dry driveway but can't move the car. I have to go out though the garage which is close to the car. I tried but just couldn't shovel a path in the thick ice leading to my front door. Fortunately, the porch is covered. I am housebound despite the clear driveway.

         I am cold natured these days, so, I am sitting at my PC with a blanket over my shoulders and a throw over my knees. I wear two pairs of gloves when I go outside. I remember my grandmother kept the house so hot I couldn't stand it. I don't keep the house hot because I'm cheap. But I wear long sleeves and a sweater. I still use a pile of afghans when I sit to read or watch TV.

         I have not become my grandmother! My hair is not grey. For that matter, I am not a good cook. I try but I don't cook like either of my grandmothers. I do have arthritis, so the doctor says, but I don't guzzle Bufferin. I am already older than my maternal grandparents lived to be. I still have some time to catch up to my father and his mother. That is if hacking away at the ice doesn't do me in.