Progress is noisy, dusty and interesting. Shovels are crawling along piles of loose dirt, tipping precariously, there is constant beeping of equipment backing up, houses vibrate when the work is nearby. Young men are working hard, taking off their shirts and hanging them on trees at 46 degrees, steam rising from their bodies. They are polite and accommodating. The holes are dug and filled up faster than anything can be put into them. We are hoping for tarred streets by October.
The WT's thought that this was a very "cute" machine. When it zips around, it looks like a little robot, a man can barely fit into it. The WT gardeners would find this to be handy.
We had five WT's at coffee this morning, on a misty, rainy day, a touch of cold in the air. Not much on our agendas, a day for catching up in the house. The road workers aren't out in the rain today. Mary presented a program about her apron collection on Saturday and Lorraine attended a fund raiser spaghetti dinner and learned that she had many shirt-tail relatives she had never met.
Our town is experiencing many changes. We were happy to have a new asissted living facility and two dollar stores in town. But, we are saddened to have our drugstore going out of business, our dentist retired and the floral shop is for sale. We are hoping for better times.
Our Shopper is full of fall events: a Corn Feed at the Baptist church, sports sign up, an all Slav fall dinner, firewood for sale and a last round of various community picnics. Church activities will increase--quilting, etc. We will try to keep up.
