Today has not had some of my finest hours. We got maybe 3″ or 4″ of snow. Because it was so little, my plowman didn’t come. I figured I could use my broom the same as I did last time. Twice I have been locked out of the house because the storm door wouldn’t open. It was stuck at the latch. My neighbor was good enough each time to jump the back fence and let me in. Ever since then I’ve shut the front door and left the storm door slightly opened, and it has worked well until today. I forgot to check my front door-it was locked, and I was stuck outside yet again. My neighbor wasn’t home so I had to figure a way inside the back door. There is no gate to the yard which I am now regretting. My deck man said he’d make one in the spring but that is small consolation. I have lattice on the rail of the back stairs. I managed to get one piece off then I tried to climb onto the deck. Mind you, my leg is aching from the dump run and from sweeping so it wasn’t cooperative. I managed to get my good leg on the deck near the rail but I just couldn’t lift my bad leg up far enough so I could go over the rail. I tried four or five different configurations and none worked. Finally I went to another neighbor to borrow a step ladder. She sent her husband with the ladder as she said I wasn’t climbing. We opened the step ladder, but he couldn’t quite get his leg over the rail as the ladder was too short. I helped and over went his leg then I helped and over went the other leg. He let me in. At least it was a different neighbor this time.

We have sun and blue skies today. I’ll take like as a consolation for the morning.