One of the first things I listed on the Pro-Ahuas chart when making my decision was that I wouldn’t have to go through a Minnesota winter of shoveling snow. Unfortunately, here in Ahuas, I have had to shovel endless piles of another four-letter word that starts with S but is brown:
Sand
The main ingredient, or solvent (Peter just finished a science unit on chemistry so I had to throw out some of the vocab), in the cement mix is sand - about eighty large shovel-fuls of sand per bag of cement. The sand is found in marshy areas that are about a half-mile from the base and has to be dug out from under a layer of dirt. Then, we have to load it onto a trailer, bring it back to the base, and unload it. Pretty tiring stuff.
And with sand, if you get thirsty you can’t eat a mouthful of it; you can’t make sweet forts out of the piles; it’s not as fun throwing it at unsuspecting friends; and I’ve never heard of someone successfully creating a “sandman”.
I never thought I’d say it, but I miss shoveling snow.
Mom & Steve - No, you cannot save that statement and bank it for a later date.
“Even castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.” - Jimi Hendrix
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