You Gotta Love Teamwork 2/1/2021

 Good Morning,

I am sitting at my desk in our den and  I have in front of me two slices of toasted raisin bread and a hot cup of Door County Breakfast Blend Coffee. The body is a wee bit sore, but I am ready to write.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who falls and has no one to pick him up.

Saturday night my wife Rene and I went outside to clear snow from a storm that began around 6:PM. Rene and I bundled up and went to remove the snow from our driveway and from our neighbor's driveway also. There is a health issue next door and there isn't much we can do for them except to move snow.  We hit the pavement at around 10:30 PM. We both knew that the storm was going to last through the night and into Sunday afternoon. But we thought we would knock it out twice so there wouldn't be so much on Sunday. 

It lasted well into the afternoon as was promised. It was apparent that the snow was falling lighter at around 10:30 AM so we went out with the same intentions. But we were surprised to find that the driveways and sidewalks were covered with another 9 inches of snow. We removed 5 inches the night before. So we started on ours. Rene shovels and I use the snow blower. I think she is afraid of it. Our neighbor lady came out also and started to do some shoveling. Pretty soon a neighbor to the South came down with his snow blower and started assisting her. I then finished ours and joined him. Rene joined us soon there after. We finished and all of us felt pretty proud of our accomplishment. Then our friend and neighbor across the street finished his driveway and sidewalk. He started in on the house to his North. Our neighbor there is single and has a tough driveway to clear. She has more sidewalk than any of us. Soon her garage door opened and she had her snow blower going. She joined her neighbor in clearing her portion of the snow. His neighbor to the North joined in, the three of us from our side of the street joined in and soon after some heavy work we had it done.

In today's world if you ever want to see kindness, compassion, and neighborly love, let snow dump on our part of the land and you will see all three attributes at their best. I am proud to live on our street and proud to call everyone of them "neighbor". What an example of teamwork.

Marty