Occupational -- & Weather-related -- Hazards

Nasty, No Good, Should Have Stayed-in-Bed Day

I suppose it would have been funny if it had happened to someone else.

Unfortunately, it happened to me.

In the course of getting exterior measurements for a new listing on a very cold Minnesota January day -- that would be yesterday -- I was walking around the perimeter of the home when suddenly the ground beneath me literally gave way.

It turns out I had stepped on -- and through -- the very thin covering on top of a window well that was obscured by the snow.

For good measure, my fall broke the moulding on a Living Room window (or vice versa) directly above the window well. Fortunately, I wasn't otherwise hurt (if you exclude an injured ego).

Adding a few extra insults to injury: first my pen froze, then snow got on my MLS input sheet, making the ink bleed and my measurements illegible.

Uggh!!