Good News!

  It was around 9:30 at night when we heard the sounds of an engine close to the house. A snowblower? Or a salt truck on the road? There had been heavy snowfall all day long and into the evening, piling up on the walkways and forming big mounds over the shrubs in the yard.   Then there was a clatter on the front porch, with the largest of the two windchimes clanging. I opened the front door in time to see our neighbor, Curt, with snow shovel in hand, standing on the porch rubbing his head.   “Oh,” he said grinning. “I didn’t see that windchime!” Had we known he was coming, we would have turned on the porch light!   Curt and his son, Ethan, worked together mowing lawns in the spring and summer, raking leaves in the fall and doing snow removal in the winter. It was a way that Curt could spend time with Ethan, while helping him save money for college. After spending all day working at the office, it was dad who came to help that evening, first using a large sn...