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Powerlines, Final Chapter
The recycled asphalt gravel was delivered today and spread out. I have an all-weather driveway again. Mind you, my idea of a one lane wide driveway os a lot narrower than the backhoe operators. And they got careless about the property lines at the end of my driveway. I made them scrape the asphalt back onto my side of the boundary.
The power company trucks came back today to take down the last of the old power lines, which were left dangling from the pole like copper, lightning-attracting, maypole ribbons.
They drove across my neighbor's property to do it.
This evening I walked over to apologize to my neighbors for the power company trucks and the bozos with the backhoe. When I get my demolished front yard reconstructed, I'll have the landscapers put some topsoil and grass seed on the scraped place.
Once the backhoe goes away, I am almost done with Mr. Sparky. They are going to hire a roofer to patch the hole in my porch roof where the overhead lines used to go through, to keep out the weather and the critters.
And by way of apology for some of the hassle, Lori at the power company offered to have them take down the naked pole by my driveway for no charge. So that will be gone soon. (I have a suspicion that they want the pole for something, though one reason for putting the power lines underground was that the pole if too short for code, and cutting it off at ground level will make it even shorter.
I have a Mr. Tran of Green Mountain Landscaping stopping by tomorrow to look things over and give some estimates. I need to find a couple of other possible sources. I want multiple bids this time.
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