[Wednesday: 3.5 miles; today: 5 miles]
Our little road is approximately .6 miles long, ending in a cul-de-sac. The road surface is chip-seal on top of a gravel road.
Our neighbor runs a one-truck hauling business and he brings his truck home every night. It’s empty, but it is a semi-truck with a large dump trailer. And it is a bit hard on our dodgy road surface.
So we get these wavy areas where road material smooshes out to both sides of the dual tires.
Last week the county road crew guys brought out a pair of dump trucks and a small excavator. They scraped off the wavy areas and put in regular gravel to even things out again. And that means our road is now mostly paved but has spots of gravel. Slowly it is reverting back to a gravel road.
[Have I ever talked about the grain bin? Our road follows a N/S section line and then takes a turn toward SW and passes in front of a string of houses. At the corner is this empty grain bin. There is nothing in it and I haven’t asked how long it has been since it was used. My neighbor, the same one with the truck, told me he once tried to work a deal where someone would buy it and move it out. That would make the corner safer since the bin has a bad effect on visibility. The county guys mow the area around the grain bin, so you can kind of see behind it a bit; it’s not completely a blind corner. I don’t know if there have ever been any road accidents there.]
