The construction continues on our street. That in itself is bad enough. They have pretty much ripped out all of the concrete from the street itself. They had removed all the sidewalks from the other side of the street early in the project. This week, they began ripping up not only our sidewalk, but our driveway.

They began doing this about 90 minutes before I had to leave for work. Naturally, I wondered if I was even going to be able to get out. Thankfully, they did lay down some sort of gravel type mess to create a way for our cars to get in and out.

We knew they’d be coming up the driveway a bit. What I didn’t know was that they were going to rip up half of my front lawn!

They had to be sure that the pipes leading to the house were copper and not galvanized. You would think that someone would have some sort of notes on something like this, right? Well, the construction guys told me that the city has NO blueprints whatsoever about our street. They don’t know where pipes are, gas lines, etc… This sort of explains why they keep hitting them while they are digging I guess.

“Plans? What plans?!”

The hole they dug in my yard is no laughing matter. It’s deep. And this picture is when they were about half done with it.

And you know, why not kill the rest of the grass by just piling the dirt you are digging up on top of it?

I can only hope that they dug up the mole – or moles – that were making tunnels under there earlier in the year!

I did give myself a chuckle, though. As they were checking the water pipe, I remembered the Three Stooges short “A Plumbing We Will Go.” In that short, Moe tells Larry to find where the water turns off. He ends up digging up the lawn. In one scene, his head pops out of the grass and he says, “I’ll find this thing or else!” and then goes back under the lawn. It cracks me up every time!

I guess I should be happy that they are working outside on the pipes and not inside …