Clearing the ice

As you can see in the pictures (link at the bottom) where ever the sun doesn't hit our yard the snow turns to ice ... and David was ready early this year ... with shovel, salt, scraper for our cars ... and this handy fertilizer distributor that he loaded with salt to spread over the back yard ... but is working on cleaning snow and ice supposed to be this much fun?

Now that we have the house ... getting rid of the ice is important ... but is it supposed to be this much fun?