Early morning ramblings, er, RUMBLINGS!

Ooooo! Lots of excitement and activity this morning:  new pavement on my street!  Yesterday I found an official note hanging from my gate that said "sorry for the inconvenience, your street will be closed _______ date", with the blank filled in 29/30.  "If you want to be able to use your car, please park on an adjacent street, as you will not be able to drive on this one till it's dry".  My first thought was "that wont be till the end of the month, I've got plenty of time" and secondly, "yeah, right.  City workers.  We wont see them till 3 weeks after their estimated start date and it will take twice as long as anticipated".   Boy was I wrong.  On both accounts!  You should see the asphalt trucks lining up!  Hundreds of them! Well, ok, dozens.  Well, ok, about 5.  But it SEEMS like a lot!  Especially when they start rolling in around 7am.  I only just got my Tahoe out in the nick of time to avoid getting house arrest for 2 days!  Which would have been bad since I have to go to work this afternoon.  I guess grocery shopping is out of the question, too, since I'd have to hike my bags half a block from parking place to home.  And that's no small feat if you knew how long our blocks are out here!  With every property at least a half acre, most are more than that, each block is lllllooooonnnnngggg! So that's my early morning story and I'm stickin' to it.  And by the way, what the heck happened to July??  Happy Ashpalt to all!