Back in the saddle again, after a break!
The challenge? Write a story in 6 sentences, no more & no less, and if you’d like, share your creation or just visit and comment on others’ ideas, with GirlieOnTheEdge, Denise. The prompt is “ETERNAL”, and here’s where you join the party: Six Sentence Stories
Slip on the Sorrels with a scrape and a thump, follow with a puffy jacket and least favorite hat with that oversized faux-rabbit pompom on the top. The undercarriage has been taken care of with moisture-wicking long johns, thin wool socks, a heavy-duty sport bra, and an expendable pair of undies. Slide a pair of choppers with removable wool liners over bone-white fingers, rarin’ to get to work and heat things up.
Garage door cracks open with a rattle and groan, and a little bit of the main course for today blows in on a gust of wind, revealing that beast of a driveway, the eternal blanket of pristine chill yawning and stretching, unmarked by boot prints, cat’s paws, or rectangular rabbit hops and drops.
Might as well set to digging and pushing ahead, as the bouncing rumble and scrape from the next street over calls warning that the plow is coming to dump a dense wall across the roadside six feet long, before you can even get halfway to clear.
Breathe deep and grab the shovel: Heaven or Hell, it’s your reality for the next six months.
© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2022)
Valley of the Trolls 
All the best on the clearing out.
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No worries…Nature will just make more. 😂😂😂
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It’s that time of year. Especially for us who have to navigate country roads, where the wind blows the snow from the fields causing whiteouts. Excellent descriptions of winter from dressing warmly, to the main course blowing in on a gust of wind. Brrrrrhhhhh
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Glad this made the connection…the struggle is real, but not unexpected. Tuck and roll with it ll!
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For this week’s ‘god-why-can’t-I-come-up-with-descriptions-that-good’:
“…as the bouncing rumble and scrape from the next street over calls warning that the plow is coming to dump a dense wall across the roadside six feet long.”
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Thank you!
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Such rich descriptions of the snow-covered driveway and all that this means. I could almost feel the cold and the resignation to the six months of this.
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(Hands her an imaginary shovel)
Hot cocoa, afters!
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Welcome back!
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(Waves enthusiastically!)
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you have been sorely missed great comeback
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Thanks! Riding on the sled of the Snow Queen…
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Taking deep breaths. 🙂
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The struggle is real! But unlike many others, the “eternal blanket” is welcomed in my heart every year. Life would be so dull without it. Each season’s drama makes me appreciate the others.
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I feel the same. Looking forward to x-country skiing & snowshoeing…once the drive and all is clear! 😂
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Winter’s come, the snow has fell
Wee Josie’s nose is froze as well
Wee Josie’s frozen nose is skintit
…..Winter’s diabolic, intit?
(Bud Neill, Scottish cartoonist)
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😂😂🤣😂😂
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Your story reminded of the good old days when I had to shovel snow. The snow plows do add to the snow in the driveway to be removed. Very descriptive tale.
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We tender southern swamp creatures could not withstand this, my hat is off to those who do.
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I’m grateful for no hurricanes, small roaches, absence of scorpions, and hungry gators. I’d doff my cap to you, but it’s chilly tonight!
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Very evocative and engaging (if not a little too much information about the undercarriage protection). This annual scenario is an eternality I could never live with. 😉
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You have winter in Down Under, though flipped with us, yes? I always welcome the Jacaranda pics from my Australian FB friend…
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Yes, we are on the verge of summer here, although you wouldn’t know it with the deluges we have received, especially in the eastern States. Of course this has absolutely nothing to do with climate change. 😉
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Yeah, no climate change her in the US, either (sputter, cough-cough!!).
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I absolutely love the Six
and the look at the photo…” Bring it on!”
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(Before the Cabin Fever sinks in!)
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Winter is upon us. Oh that you had partaken less of the pomegranate. Sounds like you are prepared though. Not your first snow-deo.
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When you live in the north lands, you take whatever the snow-devil spins your way. Spring will come once more & I WILL emerge from the drift at the end of the drive!
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I have no doubts. About your emergence, and that of eventual spring. But I do so enjoy winter.
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snow-deo!
lol
like it
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