Wednesday May 9, 2012

Wednesday May 9/12 update

Yesterday I took a shot of the house across the street already at the second floor stage.  How come the new construction seems to be going way faster than the demolition did??  It makes no sense.

Today we awoke to road construction on our tiny street!   First the grader a few times, then a packer, then the gravel trucks, then many combinations of the grader, the packer and a water truck.  I honestly thought they were going to slope the road away from the homes but, unless my perspective is way off, it appears to be sloping our way with about a 6” lip to our sidewalk.  We are uncertain if they will be paving or not, likely not today for sure, but it seems they are done our section in about 4 hours.   We certainly hope they will be putting some other surface down soon because this present stuff is like clay and the water does not soak in, it just sits there.

I took some pics and videos at different stages just for posterity.

We also got to see the daycare kids doing their shirttail routine again today.   That is so darn cute.

Other than that we both just lazed the day away and got caught up on some sleep prior to the next few bust days planned.

Enjoy the pics.    That was today’s excitement.    Hugs to all.

120509 Why is construction going faster than the demolition

120509 The shirttail gang

120509 The best view in the neighbourhood

120509 Scraping down the street

120509 They hydraulically bend the wheels

120509 Nice to see some machinery do the big work

120509 Gravel dumps

120509 Spreading the gravel

120509 Time for the vibrating packer

120509 Followed by the water truck (going backwards)