back roads

I avoided the freeway to Rockford today

    There is road construction on 39.  In the past several weeks there have been multiple accidents in the construction zone.

    I read somewhere that the Monroe Center Fire Department asked the state for help because there had been something like 12 accidents in 10 days.  They are a volunteer fire department and their resources are limited.

    So I took 251, which was closed for a time yesterday because of an accident north of 64.

    Once we got to Rockford, 11the st. was closed for a repaving project, so we had to detour through a couple of residential areas.

    Quite a mess.

    I almost made it even messier when I pulled out in front of a car on Mulford Road.  I swear, I looked both ways and never saw the car coming on my left.

    Luckily they were  paying attention and hit the  brakes before they  hit us.

    Driving is such fun.

    Last night there was another accident at Caron Road and 38.  It looked like 3 cars were involved.  I took a detour through the bank parking lot to avoid that intersection.

    I stopped for bird seed today  and bought 2 -- 40 pound bags. 

    The young man who carried it out had both bags at one time and did not even break a sweat.  Even when I was young I could not do that.

    One of my jobs sometime this week is to clean the bird feeders so they will be fresh for winter.

    I was going to do that today, but we did not get home until about 3 and by the time I got Jackie in the house,  took care of kitchen compost, and took down my windmill, it was pretty dark.  

    Short afternoons make for short work.

    And that's the way it is.

Peace and Love

        Especially Peace