Mother nature dropped another 2 inches of snow last night.
About two-thirds of the people in the world have never seen snow, and in the US about 25 percent of the population never sees snow where they live.
For a huge swath of the world prior to the 20th Century, snow and ice were a miracle beyond imagination.
Today of course, miracles occur on a daily occurrence. 
With the flick of a switch night becomes day, and with a small turn of the thermostat a cold house becomes warm.
People around the world can read this sentence faster than I can write it, and cars whizz down the road at speeds faster than a horse can run.
All of this to say that my new chest freezer was delivered today, and is currently plugged in and cooling-down in the garage.
A small miracle, but it came with a reminder that humans are not yet omnipotent.
You see, I have a very long and steep driveway.
When it snows, even after it is plowed, the last 150 feet tends to defeat trucks.
Last year, even a front end Kubota loader could not get up that last 150 icy feet, which is a few degrees steeper than the lower driveway.
History repeated itself today.
The big delivery truck backed up about 1,200 feet, and then it stopped 150 feet short of the top.
Gravity and traction won again, and so installing the miracle of endless frozen food required me to hoist the chest freezer on my back, and then hump it into the garage as if I were a jungle porter on the Stanley Expedition.
Mother Nature always bats last — a reminder to not get too comfortable or to rely too much on technological miracles. Apollo 13, after all, was fixed with Duct Tape.
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