Postby Sunny » Fri Nov 30, 2018 5:44 pm
Good afternoon everyone. The weather here is very pleasant today: high 70s, some clouds. We are supposed to have rain this weekend. DMinnie wants to be outside today, so I spent some time out there with her and gave her a good brushing, which she enjoyed.
I was awake a little before the alarm this morning. After breakfast I started in on the weekly cleaning and got most of it done. I have enough laundry for a load to wash tomorrow. This afternoon I spent some Desk Day time shuffling papers, balancing checkbook.
There is a large pot of chicken broth, celery, onion and carrots simmering on the stove. In a little while I will make some rice to add to it and that will be our supper tonight.
I have noticed that there have been fewer checkouts open in W-M. I do not use the self-checkout at either W-M or Sam's Club. The more people that use them, the less job security there is for the regular cashiers, which leads to more people out of work.
In the ongoing saga of our County Tax $$$s at work here on my street: Work started promptly at 8 am to repair the damaged manhole cover and pipe collar underneath it. It took three - five men with shovels and cement at least three hours to complete repairs. A while later a couple of supervisors came, looked and went away again. All was quiet during their lunch break. In the meantime asphalt had been put down on both sides of the street from our house to the main street. Now, remember that the cover would have to be set above the level of the street that had the top level of old asphalt scraped off in order to be even with the new surface. No, there were no orange cones placed around the area to warn of the difference in the two heights. The oil truck that sprays oil to prep the road surface for the asphalt then came down our side of the street and went around the block to do the other side. As he drove past our house spraying the other side I heard loud thumping and metal scraping on metal and the roadway. Yep, the bar with the nozzles for spraying the oil caught on the pipe and pulled the cover several feet down the street. The driver dragged the cover back then tried to readjust the bar on the back of his truck...couldn't seem to get it right, though. More cell phone calls. At one time there were many pick up trucks and several supervisor cars and at least nine workers there with shovels and more cement. The also had to use a small truck with a crane to lift the collar part of the pipe so they could get it all back in shape and cement it back together. More inspectors came and now there are two workers guarding it. They did put an orange cone on top this time. I don't know about heads rolling, but even I could see where there could have/should have been things done to eliminate the time and money spent to fix this now two day job!
Soup's ready for the rice now and dMinnie wants her supper, also.
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. --- Francis of Assisi