Snow shovelling outfit

[chicken]

1.) underwear and regular socks

2.) eddie bauer silk long johns, top and bottom

3.) thick wool socks

4.) thick denim jeans

5.) thick purple sweather

6.) heavy hiking boots

7.) ski mask (?!? bunny strongly suggested I put this on)

8.) pink winter coat

9.) thick padded maroon gloves

Putting a ski mask on OVER one's glasses doesn't really work very well, because the glasses keep going askew, and keep getting partially covered by the mask. However, putting the ski mask on under them is impossible, because of course one's ears are under the mask.

Bunny was great and cleared off more than half of the car before I even got all these clothes on.

Of course we will have to do all of this again after it stops snowing. I told myself that at least we got one layer off and that we had saved ourselves a lot of trouble, but I'm not really sure that's true.

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[kerri9494.livejournal.com]

OK, so I shoveled twice yesterday, for a total of about 100 minutes. Here's what I wore.

T-shirt
turtleneck
long-sleeved thermal shirt
sweatshirt
fleece pullover
underwear
jeans
sweatpants
socks
jacket
knit cap
fleece scarf
gloves

I WAS toasty warm. For sure.

Then the storm-door latch froze open, and I had to get the lock de-icer thingie stuff and release it.

Ahh, now for the CRACKING THE ICE OFF THE CAR. Buh.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

I was also toasty warm -- in fact the house seemed too hot after sweating and shovelling under all those layers of clothing.

The ice on the car was the most difficult part indeed.