Totally Tuesday

Not much to report....

I got a royalties check today from ICS Publications for the translation that they published this year. That was a nice surprise because I thought it had been one of those projects that I was just doing for free.

They started work on the shoulder of our road today. They came out and did a nice job on one side of the middle. Then they went home, apparently. Well, if the rest of it looks as good, we will be quite satisfied.

The construction going on up by Wal-Mart continues apace, and they keep changing the traffic pattern. Today I nearly got run over by a semi when the driver made a left turn right into the oncoming traffic lane -- and I was the oncoming traffic. The turn he made would have fit the traffic flow last week, and I suspect he didn't see that they had moved the traffic cones in the middle. At any rate, no one was behind me and I was able to back up about half a block so he could complete his maneuver. Such excitement!

What's odd about it is that they had a flagman stationed down by the exit ramp, where the traffic pattern is pretty obvious. and traffic comes from one direction. There was no one at the Wal-Mart juncture where traffic comes from four directions, people are making right and left turns as well as trying to get out of the shopping center parking lot, the construction machinery is rolling back and forth and all that jazz. Later when we went up to the Home Depot, I noticed that they had moved the flagman to the Wal-Mart spot where he was doing a good job keeping things moving under cloudy skies, windy and cold. It was below 50 degrees at five o'clock and going to a low of forty tonight.

Around 5:30 our little flockette of turkeys wandered around the back yard, attracting the cats' and my attention by their clucking. They seem to be putting on their winter fat, too. We (they) are right in the middle of the fall wild turkey hunting season, which runs from mid-September to mid-November. It is also deer season for bow hunters, black bear season in parts of the state with variations, and various other critters. Badgers (the state mammal), woodchucks and flying squirrels are protected, but you can take all the possums, skunks, weasels and snowshoe hares you can find anywhere, anytime.