Hey! Last night we had a thoroughly compacted, gravel road with a clay base. As of 910am this morning, we suddenly have a strip of asphalt on our side of the street, and the steamroller has been going back and forth smoothing it down.

They started around 8am, I think, but it didn’t get noisy enough to bounce pictures off the wall and call our attention to their activities until just now.

If you check the webcam you may see some of the equipment going by. That’s the new mailbox we put together, lying on the driveway waiting to be installed when they’re done. And we’re hoping to have them pour a new cement driveway for us as a side project as some of the other neighbors have done – one of the neighbors gave us a phone number for the supervisor that’s been putting those little deals together.

I don’t envy them – it’s already 82 degrees outside, and supposed to get even hotter and more humid as the day unfolds.

UPDATE:Wow! we can has a paved street!