We had another lovely, warmer than normal day yesterday.  It was a good day for the work to be done on the culvert by the end of our driveway.  The road was closed from 9 a.m. until mid-afternoon.  It was a long span - I think there may have been three sections of new culvert installed.  We were curious to see what the old culvert looked like - it hadn't been working well for quite a long time, and when we saw how rusted and crushed it was, we understood why.  We took lots of pictures and I've put some into a slide show for you.  Dave, Rusty and Aldo did the work - they are regulars on the road crew.  They did a really neat job and everything looks as if it will operate perfectly.  They put rip-rap in the catch basin, and that will help keep the erosion as a minimum, and they reset our mailboxes so we're better than ever.  Now we're waiting for a good soaking rain to see how everything performs.

Today is rainy, but it's very light so far.  The prediction is for some heavy rain perhaps later in the day.  We need the rain, but we aren't looking forward to the colder weather that is going to follow it this weekend - in fact, there is a chance we'll be seeing snow showers by Sunday.  I guess it's time, but we're completely spoiled by this stretch of abnormally warm weather.  We're ready for it, though.