The way I interpret that, the guy in the song keeps himself busy doing essentially nothing, even though he thinks it’s something. Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo. Playing solitaire til dawn, with a deck of 51. “Counting flowers on the wall, that don’t bother me at all. It was during one such snow event in early 2014 that I decided I needed a “Shoveling Theme Song.” For no particular reason – in between cursing a blue streak at that ratfink Mother Nature – the Statler Brothers’ song “Flowers on the Wall” popped into my head while I was clearing the driveway. In addition, shoveling snow is downright unpleasant and boring. It does require going out in the storm more often, but shoveling snow three or four inches at a time as opposed to 12 to 15 inches at the end has proven easier for me. I now go out several times during a storm, maybe every two or three hours, and shovel a few inches at a time. So in recent years – and because of an aging back – I’ve taken a different approach. The problem is that if we get a foot or more of snow from one storm, it’s difficult to lift that much snow. I used to believe the best way to attack the issue was to wait until it stopped snowing, then go out and shovel it all at once. Snow makes me grumpy and I have threatened – to no avail – many times to whack Mother Nature upside the head with my snow shovel if she didn’t lay off my driveway.īut over the years, I have changed my philosophy when it comes to shoveling snow. In early 2014, it snowed quite a bit in the Philadelphia area, most of it I think, right in my driveway. That’s how the 1972 album “Innerview” by the Statler Brothers made it into “The Vinyl Dialogues.” Sometimes, all it takes is a foot of snow to provide a little inspiration. The Statler Brothers opened for Johnny Cash from 1964 through 1972.
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