Observations

I took a walk this afternoon, because the sun was shining, and I wanted to escape impending cabin fever. Also, because my back hurt from shoveling snow, and I thought a jaunt around town would alleviate aches and pains.  Along the way, I helped a woman with a walker get across an icy sidewalk that hadn't been properly cleared. Good deed done.

Later, on Locust Street, I was walking behind a young woman of about 20 and a boy I assumed to be her son, who appeared to be about five. The kid was lagging a bit, as kids do, but "Mom" wasn't pleased and told him, "I'm not gonna keep f**kin' stoppin' dude. You're gonna walk. You're gonna shut the hell up." She didn't say it angrily, just matter-of-factly, in a normal, conversational tone. I hadn't noticed the kid saying anything. I wondered how many times he must have heard similar language at home at his young age for some small infraction, real or perceived. And we wonder where kids get this stuff and why they grow up dysfunctional and disaffected.

After you dig out a parking space, is it appropriate to claim it? | PennLive.com

The controversy also exists elsewhere, namely Harrisburg. Click on the link below for more info and residents' opinions on the matter.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/02/parking_etiquette_in_the_snow.html#comments

What I Saw - February 16, 2014

 A casualty along Barber Street

 A uniquely designed snowman that's also . . . if not anatomically correct, at least anatomically explicit, thus the censored photo.  This is a family blog, after all.  There's a time and place for such expression.  But in one's backyard, facing the sidewalk where children play, isn't appropriate.

 We got a lot of snow recently.

Well, at least they cleared the snow off their car, even if they can't get out of their parking space.

Sunday morning snow removal on Locust Street

On Sunday morning, work crews were busy clearing excess snow from Locust Street.

 Although notices had been posted along the street last Wednesday, some vehicles had not been moved. Those remaining were ticketed and towed.

 This lady in white moved her car at the last minute.

 Snow was blown into dump trucks and hauled away.

 Vehicles continued to be towed.

 Here's a closer view of the humongous snow blower that was used.

 Further down the street

 A side view of the giant snow blower

 More vehicles being towed

 The morning's work yielded some good results . . . 

 here . . . 

and here.

Our borough workers deserve thanks for working hard on a Sunday morning to make our streets clear and safe.

What I Saw - February 14, 2014

When you're out shoveling your sidewalk, do a favor for the firemen (and maybe yourself) and dig out the fire hydrant in your neighborhood.

 As someone did here

 But not here

Or here

 Here's a work in progress

 As is this, because it sure isn't completed.

 As I said before, some do and some don't.

 The mailman had to push his cart up the highway - into oncoming traffic - because some sidewalks were not shoveled sufficiently (or at all).

That's one big pile of dirty snow.

Addams Family House Threatened

The former Long Funeral Home, pictured HERE, has been named one of Lancaster County's most threatened historic spots by the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster, according to a LancasterOnline article HERE.  The house was built in 1895 and was recently listed for a price of about $67,000.