Nice Weather Means Construction

Every spring warm weather means construction time.  It doesn't matter where I live in the world, even if its warm in winter, when spring rolls around the construction begins.

Right now my nice, lush, green lawn is discolored with blue, red, white, and green spray paint lines.  This seems to be the norm for my neighborhood as I look up and down the street on my walk to get the mail and find I'm not the only one soon to have trenches in their yard.

Needless to say my husband is rather upset that the lawn he worked so hard on is going to be destroyed.  We've been told that they will restore the lawn after they tear it apart.  I have my doubts as to how good of a job they will do in its reconstruction.

This morning a man in a hard hat was walking up and down my street with white sheets of paper sticking them in every door on the street.  Oh dear, this just can't be good is what I thought.  Its not good.  This is going to be a long process.  I now know the window of destruction.  Starting this Monday, a holiday mind you, February 21st through June 30th our street is going to be crowded with earth moving equipment, loud noises and more often then not rude construction workers.  I realize they have a job to do but I don't like it when they block driveways and make it quite difficult to navigate the narrow road.

In this four months of construction work we are to also have power outages they stated on the paper.

POWER OUTAGES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS WORK WILL BE SCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE AND TENNANTS WILL RECEIVE SEVERAL NOTICES OF PENDING OUTAGES TO INCLUDE TWO WEEKS IN ADVANCE AND UP TO THE DAY BEFORE.  OUTAGES WILL BE KEPT TO A MAXIMUM OF 4 HOURS AT A TIME. 

Note the typo of "tennants" that should be tenants.  I highly doubt they'll keep it to just 4 hours without power as we've gone 16 hours before in cold weather.  This is not going to be my cup of fun. 

Yoga, Tai Chi, and Zen breathing will hopefully get me through the stress of living yet again in a construction zone.  In NY I lived in a construction zone for two years.  I thought I did my time in Hell, I guess not.

Winter Is Here

photo by me of course

Last night we lost power for about three hours.  It didn't stop me from cooking dinner.  I know how to light the gas stove.  I know where the candles, oil lamps, and matches are located.  My husband even grilled steaks outside by the light of tea light lanterns.  The only thing we had to worry about was staying warm.  The outside temperature had dropped quick and the snow started to fall.

The snow is still falling as I type this blog entry.  Above is a photo I took this morning.  My plants are still blooming which makes it rather nice.  See the photo below.

I'm all set with my Sorrel boots, long black wool coat, gloves, and if needed a hat, the coat does have a nice hood.  I doubt our Winter here will get as cold as it is back home in the North Country.   Most folks living here wouldn't be able to handle the -40 F we experienced back home.

Maybe the snow will accumulate a few more inches and I'll be able to make that snowman I was hoping for yesterday.  Thursday we are due for rain.  For now all is right in the world and the outside for once looks like it should this time of year.  Now to go find where the snow shovel was placed in the garage.

For those of you that read my blog and live in the area, stay safe, drive cautiously, even if some of you are used to the snow back home there are others that are not.

Bright Blessings!