Aug 30 2010
110 Days of Construction
For the past 4 or 5 years, our mayor has been telling us that the road in front of our home will be repaired. I should say, he is saying it will be taken out down to the bare bones and replaced. This is a good thing. The run off during the winter forms icy patches and we end up with a few cars per season in our ditch. We have had to replace our mailbox a few times. The downside to this construction project is that it will be hard for people to get to our business. I wish we were wealthy and could take an extended vacation. Since we are not, we plan to suck it up, put on our rain boots a wade out the storm.
Here is a picture of the road that will be reconstructed.
Looking from our drive:
The new thingy for the phone line. They destroyed my clematis. I would have moved the plant had I known they would be working there. :-/
The hole they dug. They hit our sewer line and duct taped a trash bag around it for the weekend. Sigh.
4 Responses to “110 Days of Construction”
Well I sure hope the rest of the construction goes more smoothly!
That’s a shame they destroyed your clematis. Those are so pretty!
Ah, looks like the work of unions. You have unions over there? New York union workers are EXTRA SPECIAL, I tell ya!
My town recently installed sidewalks. The NY union workers were so expensive that the town couldn’t afford to hire them. So they hired a company from Minnesota! The workers lived here for 2 weeks, staying in hotels, eating in restaurants, doing the sidewalks, while the town paid for it all. And it was all still cheaper than hiring the next-door neighbor union workers! Whew.
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How unfortunate that they have destroyed your lovely clematis but on the other site your road will be reconstructed for the better. Hopefully everything will work smoothly and successfully.