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FARMINGTON – Even after multiple snowstorms, Bob Leonard and Verne Byers still haven’t lost their “get ‘r done” attitude.

Leonard, 69, pushed his snowblower up his driveway off Titcomb Hill Road Thursday as snow fell.

He has lived in Farmington for four years, but having lived in other New England states, snow is not new to him.

This season he splurged and bought the snowblower.

“The first year was a disaster,” he said.

He had a truck come in and plow snow, but there was really nowhere to put the snow, he said. The garage is downhill of the driveway and the house is adjacent to it, leaving little room to pile snow.

That year it got so high, it was over his head.

“I had to bring in a bucket loader to remove it,” Leonard said.

He borrowed a smaller-type snow thrower for a couple of years and then decided to invest in his own machine.

“The hill is a bear,” he said.

He went out and bought the biggest heavy-duty Craftsman on the market. It’s been used 10 times and paid for itself, he said.

“It either builds character or destroys it,” he said, taking a break at the top of the hill.

“I love snow,” he said. “I haven’t given up yet.”

He started up the machine and was off down the driveway again.

On Anson Street, the lower section of the same road, Byers, 80, in a red snowsuit, was shoveling the end of his driveway where a plow truck had left him a little something special: more snow.

He cleared the driveway earlier with his snowblower and reverted to shoveling to clean up the end and to scrape off a new layer of snowflakes on the rest of it.

“I grew up in Aroostook County so I grew up with snow,” Byers said.

As a child, he never had a problem going out to shovel.

To this day, he enjoys it.

“I get a chance to play everyday,” Byers said. “I don’t really mind.”

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