Tuesday, November 15, 2011

It's strangely comforting to have a couple of co-workers/ friends give me a hard time about up-dating my blog. You see, I type these blog reports and it seems as if they go out on the web and nobody reads them. I have not gotten many comments or interaction with followers, so, now I know, at least I have a few followers!
The time worked since my last blog has been busy but not very exciting. We finished our major projects this summer and we have been doing some spot scabbing some minor problem areas. We did some scabbing on CR 1345, CR 1468, CR 1450, CR 1465, and CR 1540. Those were all in the middle section of Precinct #1. We always have some scabbing to do on the Old Paris Rd, CR 1200. We also went to the east side of Tankersly on a very narrow road CR 1124 and scabbed a portion of the road for those residents. CR 1220 was also addressed after the gophers had a field day this summer under the pavement.
We always need to take a few days to a week to "shovel patch" the whole precinct. That was done from September 20 to the 23 and again from November 7 to the 10.
The entire rest of the last two and a half months has been spent cutting dead red oaks and pine trees in the precinct. We have cut no less that one hundred trees, some skinny saplings to behemoth oaks. Our burn pile will be photographed for posterity. It is huge!! As I said during court on Monday, if and when we light it, the space station will report a siting! As I sit here typing this blog, I'm hoping the forecasters are right about the large rainfall expected this evening.