CNY winter meme

From NYCO.

1. What’s the winter tool you can’t do without?

Clothing. Specifically a hat, gloves and boots – if my ears get numb, I'm just positively miserable; I use my hands too much to skip out on the gloves, and decent boots can make outdoors entirely bearable.

2. The winter tool you could do without (i.e., find unnecessary or silly)?

I can't think of anything, actually. I have a shovel and a snow brush/ice scraper (which probably could use some replacing – it's 11 now).

3. Your favorite music to listen to when stuck in the house in a snowstorm?

Silence. There's so much noise in our lives that we don't even notice anymore, from traffic to the buzz of the street lamps. When that first big storm hits, everyone's off the street, and maybe the power goes out, it's just so intensely quiet that the one person shoveling sounds like a symphony screaming in your ear.



4. The winter sound you least like to hear?

Snow plows scraping on the street.


5. Your driveway shoveling pattern: vertical (up and down)? horizontal (pushing from side to side)? Or any which way?

It depends on my mood, and the amount of snow. The more chaotic the snowfall, the more chaotic the shoveling pattern.