The Progeny
The Layin' O' the Stone
BIG, big day up at the house.
Time for the annual resurfacing of the roads. For the gravel type, this involves laying down an "unconsolidated mixture of rock fragments or pebbles."
Like I said....gravel.
It's noisy, dusty and involves lots of trucks and largish machines.
We're talkin' heaven for little boys.
This is also why Ma decided to walk on the treadmill this morning, instead of the road. Even before they lay gravel down our particular patch, they spend days tearing up and down with intimidating trucks, and raising vast clouds of dust as they work on other roads.
I don't know.....there's just something about coughing my lungs out with dust and dodging speeding trucks that leaves me flat.
But the whole procedure is interesting to watch. Trucks come in a never-ending cycle to lay a strip down the middle of the road.
For about 20 minutes, trucks are EVERY-where.
Then a pair of roadgraders come through to smooth it out to the edge. Carolyn holds Trevor, who has turned a little incident where he stepped on barbed wire into the need for being carried everywhere....(he's just fine, by the way)
Nolan is distracted by a tractor across the road--(trucks AND tractors in the same day!)--while Jason {I mean Ethan. ETHAN!!} looks longingly at the departing graders.
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Time for the annual resurfacing of the roads. For the gravel type, this involves laying down an "unconsolidated mixture of rock fragments or pebbles."
Like I said....gravel.
It's noisy, dusty and involves lots of trucks and largish machines.
We're talkin' heaven for little boys.
This is also why Ma decided to walk on the treadmill this morning, instead of the road. Even before they lay gravel down our particular patch, they spend days tearing up and down with intimidating trucks, and raising vast clouds of dust as they work on other roads.
I don't know.....there's just something about coughing my lungs out with dust and dodging speeding trucks that leaves me flat.
But the whole procedure is interesting to watch. Trucks come in a never-ending cycle to lay a strip down the middle of the road.
For about 20 minutes, trucks are EVERY-where.
Then a pair of roadgraders come through to smooth it out to the edge. Carolyn holds Trevor, who has turned a little incident where he stepped on barbed wire into the need for being carried everywhere....(he's just fine, by the way)
Nolan is distracted by a tractor across the road--(trucks AND tractors in the same day!)--while Jason {I mean Ethan. ETHAN!!} looks longingly at the departing graders.
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posted by Ma Hoyt | 10:31 AM
4 Comments:
Did Jason shrink? Or have I lost my mind?
Tim
I was wondering the same thing...
Kendra
Looks like to other people beat me to it.
-Nathan
Uhhhh.....
*bows head in shame*
Actually, that is Ethan *edits post*
This is all Scholl's fault.
I was working on this post whilst IMing with the Cynic and, unlike my esteemed nephew MATTHEW--who claims he can do 6 things at his (government) job while talking to me on IM--apparently, multi-tasking is not my strong point.
The best I can hope for in that regard is a run-on sentence while commenting.
In my de-fense, Jason and Ethan were uncannily alike as babes. And I'm thinkin' you're all gonna feel REAL bad when news of my dementia becomes public.
I, on the other hand, will not, since I intend to use my last remaining brain cells to write a book chronicling my mental demise as I, one by one, take people out of the "will."
But basically, it's Scholl's fault.
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