He's In the Hole!

I got to the bus stop this morning just before the bus was due. 

 As I looked up the street, I caught a bit of movement

out the corner of my eye. I turned towards the tree to see 

a young squirrel moving in and out the of its

nest in the tree. It checked its environment, sniffed the

surroundings, darting in and out of the opening several times

before going about its daily business elsewhere on

the tree and in the park.

A Pay Check for Somebody

All over the city, new sidewalks, drainage systems, and curbing is being installed.

In Speedway, the narrow side streets have each, in their turn, been torn up

so that new sewage lines can be put in place.

Outside the entry to my workplace, a new retention pond has been

created, lined with rip-rap, to help alleviate flooding 

in the neighborhood. New sidewalks have also been poured,

which will be greatly appreciated by the disabled folk who live nearby.

While all of this has been needed, and some may have been 

long-planned, I think the scale of the operation, taking in a great part 

of metro Indy, is due to the Economic Stimulus Act; our virulently

Republican government condemns the operation, but is avidly

using the monies received to do the much-needed work.

While I have no proof that this is so, the amount of work being done

for the past 4 years seems unprecedented.