I celebrated Rare Disease Day by shoveling snow.

Today we had the one and only snow dump of the entire season. Naturally, my spouse is away in England at a conference, and the snow blower was stored on the highest shelf in the garage. Who does that?

So my son, daughter, and I shoveled the long driveway. It took us two hours - basically the entirety of their school delay.

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