2/18 The oversized pickup is the flip side of the desire of women for men taller than six feet.

Temperature not quite as high as yesterday, but rain all day. We got a dumpster in front of the house, as we need to get rid of as much stuff as we can before the construction workers come to replace the central beam in our living room. A 10-yard dumpster was the smallest size they had, and I was in shock about it until I realized that this means 10 cubic yards. To make an area for it to be dropped on, I removed a stretch of the large remaining snow wall in front of the house, partly by shoveling snow elsewhere, and partly by driving over it with the Jeep, back and forth many times.