road maintenance

The township did a chip and tar on our road. Once the surface was brushed, the tar sprayer came, followed by the chip spreader and the roller. We were free to drive on it.

the sap flows

The sap drips out of the hole into the old bucket while the township guys walk down the road patching cracks and holes in the macadam so nothing flows into them.

horse gets ticket OR burn ban

What's the commotion about? It looks like a horse getting a ticket, but then I see the smoke. Soon a fire engine appears and it's the whole township drill, all to put out a trash fire which Davie, who rents my field, started. The burn ban is still in effect.

local color

I heard of Schoeneck but never saw it. So Milton and I went there on a whim for lunch. You could spit on it from the Pennsylvania Turnpike, halfway through Lancaster County. The 1949 building has "Fire Co" written in the bricks. The word breaks between "n" and the second "e." Pretty corner, it means. We heard the accent on the street.

the sign at home

I asked the township road master if the school sign across the road could be moved farther east so the milk truck could leave without clipping our post. Later the same day he did it. Apparently road masters don't pound stakes in with sledge hammers anymore. The huge front loader pushed it down like a toothpick.