Otherwise, Yeah, It's Been Pretty Boring Around Here Lately

I find it hard to believe the geography on the other side of the road is that much different from our side but, apparently, it is because the sidewalk construction crew is improvising on the fly as they work their way back north.

Our side proceeded in a strict linear progression. I took a look at the other side as it moves closer and they're all over the place. There's about fifteen feet completed at the beginning of the project followed by a section where the forms have been placed but nothing poured, followed by another completed section, followed by a long scraped area interrupted by several driveways (at least one of which they have already rebuilt), followed by another completed section and ending up close to our place in a long patch with the forms installed.

It would seem there are some significant but otherwise not very noticeable low places that require filling in for which they were not prepared. There are a number of semi-buried drainage pipes along that side of the road. Perhaps they are afraid of altering the water flow. In any case, the work zone looks extremely haphazard and not nearly the model of managerial co-ordination that swept past us last month.

Large dump trucks keep dropping of mounds of dirt in the empty field across the way and the front loader shuttles back and forth carting the stuff away again but I see no more finished sidewalk than I did two weeks ago.