Once Upon a February...

we live in Minnesota, and it was a nice day outside (temperature wise) so Brett decided to take the children out to get the snow off of the deck and the roof.Brett soon learned that standing under the ledge while pulling the snow off with his shovel was not the best way to do it.

He and his daughters continued to work on the deck. They removed the snow by the shovelfuls.

This was a slow, heavy process.

They also picked up any chunk of snow that they could, and they carried it to the side and threw it off.
This too was a long, slow process.
However the girls and Brett kept at it.

The snow on the roof was still bothersome to Brett, so he put Emily up there to shovel it off. Eli could not handle the fact that his sister was out "playing," so he got geared up and came out and asked to be on the roof, too.
Brett put them both up there and then made a big mistake...
He stood too close to the falling snow. Eli took full advantage of this and dumped a shovel full of snow on him.

The troops got a lot of the snow off, and it was a good start to help it melt off in the next couple of days.

The only casualty of the day was...
my favorite shovel.