My Good Neighbour did indeed shovel my stairs and front walk, but I think the sidewalk was done by a bobcat last night. Certainly I saw one clanking along on the other side late in the evening- post thundersnow- and my side looked remarkaby flat. I don't know when the snow stopped, so C may have done whatever fell this morning. When I got up at 10ish the sidewalk was bare to the concrete, the sun was shining, and snow was dripping off all the tree branches that got coated with it yesterday.

There was still a *lot* of snow. SND, bless her genki soul, was out in the backyard with her snowblower,  woman-handling it through the heavy piled-up pack and making great progress. 'Gee Samson what mussles', I thought in envy.

It will get below freezing tonight and for no good reason, my stretch of sidewalk is lower than the surrounding ones so water pools and freezes into glare ice. Went out to check just at sundown and saw an ambulance up the street at Josie's house. Could also hear Josie giving instructions to the paramedics as they carried her out so at least she's not going gentle to that good hospital. I trust it's nothing more serious than a fall, though falls in one's 80s are serious enough.

If I want some useful study I could do much worse than look up PMT vocabulary online. The wordtank doesn't have that many colloquial phrases and its definitions are often just out of true. I usually guess general meanings from kanji or context and skip over the exact translation. Online gives definitions in Japanese and examples and is very instructive.

Snow or no snow, March tree allergies have started, so ah-choo ah-choo ah-choo woe is me.