The big Dig

Well,as i was saying, there is a lot going on this week in our town -- though we dont think of our town as a town, its really a village, we have a gas&Grill, a barber shop two churches though not many go to church, a propane gas vendor and a lumber yard -- no school, if you got kids in school they are all bussed into town 8 miles away -- we do have a park and baseball diamond with lights for playing ball at night which we do use a lot during the the late summer when the slow pitch tournament is on and the kids get out there on their own during the summer and we have a big get-together in the late fall -- its like a community reunion which is fun to see how everybody but me is getting fat and old. But all this belies what happened this week: the DOT decided to tear up the main intersection in town -- its main cause its the only one and because its the state highway too. so as the DOT heavy equipment proceeds to pound the concrete intersection to smitherines with this contraption that raises a huge metal block that must have weighed tons then let it drop PLOP right on the concrete and everything around jumps up now keep in mind that the big grain trucks are backing up cause this is the highway they use to get to the river to ship the grain out and besides that there are a few other trucks that are sneeking across the state to avoid whatever truckers avoid on the main highways and pretty soon the trucks are tired of waiting and bored as they allow only one truck at a time around the BANG bangin so they toot and toot in boredom but that dont fase ol Ed, whose in charge cause he's mostly deaf since the fuel tank explosion back in 00 and he got about 3 months off and came back to work cause he knew all the computer passwords and was in charge of security and wouldnt tell anybody unless they kept him on which he got in writing cause he aint as dumb as he looks well I was right there when it happens: water starts to oooooze out from under the crumblling concrete and when the big hammer comes down everything jumps but also starts to get sprayed and two more whacks of that big ol hammer and the hammer dissapears below the street and the whole machine tips over throwing the operator out about 20 foot away right in front of a truck trying to get through the intersection and the trucker hits his breaks an swerves right into a all cracked up spot and tips over spilling grain everywhere and thats when the gussher starts, first about a foot high then it gains steem going higher and higher until its over the electric lines and transformer which begins to sputter pop and spark and smoke and thats when everybody clears out -- horns still tootin and everybody running in every-which way and waving their hands ---- except for ol Ed who is calmly lighting a cigarteet cause he wasn't paying much attention. Frosty grabbed ol Ed and kinda talked and led him over to the side just as the electric pole snapped and the wires came down on the grain truck and then there were lots of fireworks. Ed saw that and took of fastern any one had seen him go in years.

Well after the electricity was turned off and the water main from the rural water was turned off the DOT personnel left us scratchin our heads and wonderin what to do next. Someone called the state patrol on one of those new fangled portable tellies which fit in your pocket and then a helocopter came flying over then the electic company people showed up. Sure nugh we got a problem here i heard one say.

Next day every able bodied man who wanted to work had a job of some kind some even got paid for it. The mess is cleaned up. we got a new main interwection. ther's a new electric pole close to where the old one was and the water main was fixied and water turned back on. This re-tellin has bout wore me out so i best take a rest now. donmt forget to write. grampajim