Have you ever lived...

...in the middle of road construction? It is a funny thing. When we bought this house, they were just putting out the orange barrels on the state highway that our neighborhood is off of. Now, 3 years later, we are still dodging those barrels. I've only hit one, but apparently everyone else has too because there is a growing barrel-cemetary on one side of the road.

Anyway, I am always amazed at the progress. They don't ask me how I would do it. But if they did, I would have some great ideas. The funny thing is, every time I pass the giant paving machine, it is stopped. I don't think I have seen it move more than a couple times in 3 years. I know it moves slowly, but it is truly stopped every time I pass it. Yet, somehow, I come back out on the road a couple hours after seeing it stopped and they have paved half a mile. And the machine is stopped again. There must be little paving elves that only work when no one is watching.

Here is one of my great, economical tips, for all the paving workers who I am sure read my blog on their lunch breaks. When there is that line of dump trucks lined up in front of the paver that never moves, why waste the man power of having someone wait inside each truck. Why not have a couple drivers that leap-frog between trucks. Then the other 8 drivers could do something productive instead of sitting in their trucks, waiting for their turn to dump asphalt into the paver that never moves. How about putting our street signs back up so that folks can figure out how to get to our house? Or maybe, push the dents out of the barrels in the cemetary? Anything but just sitting in the dump truck line.

Well, there you have my 2 cents. Hopefully, they will finish the road, at least the part in front of our neighborhood, before Katie learns to drive. Otherwise, they will need to buy a lot more barrels!