I guess I should be grateful for small blessings

like the fact that a plow actually did plow a single lane clear on our avenue last night.
But he plowed it right down the middle, and left two feet of packed snow five feet out from the mailboxes. All the way down the street.
And if you think a unionized USPS mail carrier is going to get his/her boots snowy climbing out to reach over to the mailbox, well…let’s be charitable and just call you one of those hopey-changey Obamaites.