'Tis the Day After Christmas

I give up! The damn fill it yourself battery for the ATV has the most Mickey Mouse terminals that I have ever dealt with. It has a roughly square nut that fits into a terminal box and then can be connected from either the top or the front depending on how you place the nut into the box. Well you need one hand to hold the nut, one to tip the battery and the THIRD to turn the bolt while holding the cables. Now even if I had a 3rd hand (either attached to me or in the form of another person) there is no room for 3 hands and arms around the battery under the fender above the tire.

The temperature made it to 35* yesterday. The snow got all wet and heavy. It was 18* overnight so the snow has now frozen into a single block. I cannot move it with a shovel. The ruts that I cut into the snow in the hour trek of getting my truck to the top of the driveway are now rock hard glacial ridges. Even if I get the ATV moving, it will not have the power to move the massive amounts of snow.

I give up! I just called the neighbor with a Bobcat. He is out plowing snow (it is one of his winter businesses, landscaping in the summer). He will plow me out sometime today. That is a good thing. But I still hate this damn do it yourself battery.

Mr. Flannery

UPDATE: It was snowing so hard that I had snow snowing out the satellite picture on TV. I had to remove the snow from the dish to remove the snow from the snowy picture.

Then the cavalry arrived. Eric and the Bobcat saved my day. He moved the snow quickly and much more cleanly than I could even hope to do with the ATV.

RNC - Babe and I made snow angels just for you. They were to the left of the tree before plowing took place. (And mine was much better than Babe's).

Mr. Flannery