-Monday – August 11, 2025 —> +36˚C / +97˚F = Hot, Sunny, & Dusty In Atlantic Canada As Mercury has stopped ‘Retching’ backward across the sky – & *** News Flash *** Weather conditions are so hot and dry up here in the ‘Great {Not-White today} White North’ – That New Brunswick and Nova Scotia have passed laws telling people not only to never have a camp fire in the woods, but to stay the heck out of the forests or face really big fines, { Over $2,000.00 Canadian Dollars }. {{{ Pray for Rain? }}}
– “Big Earth Moving Machines ‘upgrading’ our street -” –
— Steam Roller to the left of me – Two Monster things we used to call ‘Steam Shovels’ dead ahead, Monster Dump Truck in the distance & something actling like the world’s biggest fork lift to the right of the orange and white things warning drivers to avoid falling into deep holes… This was at about 12:33 pm – & I’m impressed at the speed of these guys’ work and how nice they’ve been to us –
– “Another View of the Steam Roller & Work in Progress.” –
— Today is Garbage Day and this week it’s paper recycling collection day – There’s a hint of our recycling just this side of the steam roller’s tires.
– “A better shot of where our driveway now connects to the street?” –
— Last Friday I didn’t get a wonderfully framed shot of where our driveway connects to our street – so in keeping with ‘Redundancy R Us’ I took another shot – this time with hints of recycling, steam roller and another Earth Mover behind a utiity pole. The road crew calls in a special truck with a special arm to reinforce the ‘uprightness’ of utility poles when they’re digging close to what they hope is stable ground at the base of those poles.
– “Many Canadians refer to driveways as ‘laneways’ – And this is what our driveway looked like at just before 12:30 pm today -” =
— I took a video of the two big ‘steam shovels’ working together up the street a bit – but WordPress didn’t want to mess with any graphics files that big so you don’t have to suffer through two steam shovels dancing together and not knocking each other out –
– – – – – Yay?
~~~~~ Jim
