To Hot To Mow To Cold To Snow

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The name grins, but the work is serious: when it's too cold for anything else in New Ulm, To Hot To Mow To Cold To Snow is out clearing it. Snow removal is the trade — driveways scraped bare, walks shoveled, the banks pushed back so January has room to keep coming. Downtown, the Glockenspiel plays its carillon into the falling snow at noon, and the streets fill and fill again; the job is simply to keep emptying them. Deep winter here is not a season so much as a residence, moving in around Thanksgiving and staying past Easter. Somebody has to meet it at the door with a shovel, and that somebody enjoys the work.