Teddy's first job!

Originally posted on 2/5/11

We've had a lot of freezing rain, sleet and snow in the last weeks...13 snow days so far! Teddy loves to shovel snow and in fact he loves manual labor of all sorts. In the video, you can see how he cleared our driveway for us...he was so depressed when we were finished, I told him, let's go ahead across the street to Jerry's and do his for him. Jerry suffered a stroke last year and we had spotted his wife out there earlier, but she had given up after a few minutes. After Tina (Jerry's wife) saw that Teddy was out there shoveling, she insisted that Teddy get paid for his work...I told her not to worry about it, but the next day she gave him a thank you card and $20 bucks!! Teddy was very proud and this was, I thought, his first money that he has earned in the neighborhood...but I am remembering as I write this, that Bob, straight across the street, pays Teddy every once in a while for bringing his trash can back to his garage every trash day. Sue and I were really proud of the hard work Teddy did shoveling and no doubt he'll make a lot of money in the coming years shoveling, mowing and raking!