I worked for several hours mostly on the driveway today. I have always left a base of snow to make driveway maintenance a bit easier in the winter, but with warmer temperatures, the base is getting soft, and, although I can get my truck out with no problem, the wife's car is beginning to bog down in "the heat of the day" (upper 30s). I jinxed things by removing the snowblower from the tractor and replacing it with a blade--it will probably snow a foot over the weekend. I will be kicking the car out of the garage soon, probably tomorrow, so I can set up additional plant light shelves as our seedling inventory grows. Anyway, I found that there were ice ridges underneath the snow base in the driveway, so it made for quite a chore. I am hoping some of the ice will soften now that the top layer has been removed. I guess the ice formed while we were away in January, as the house sitter doesn't do driveway maintenance unless he or she cannot get in or out of the driveway. We have building a fire most days in the big greenhouse trying to get the snow melted off the roof. I still had to dig through 3 feet of snow to make a place for the snowblower, down from 5 feet that was on the ground just a couple weeks ago.