Siver, Glenda and Loki
I be’d my own one-man long-haired redneck road crew this morning, and filled up all the potholes in the road that had developed from the little rain and snow we’ve got in November, and the freezing every night and thawing every day. I scraped ten wheelbarrow loads of base course and gravel off the edges of the road to fill in the potholes, and then dumped another 30 or so wheelbarrows of sand I dug out of the ditch bank to fill the areas that had sunk over the culvert. I walked three miles pushing that wheelbarrow back and forth for two hours.
Off Center & Not Even 
I remember your previous stories of patching that road. You are working hard, Tim! The cats look like they are hardly working, but adorable just the same. š
hardly working is working hard for kitties. Thanks, Lavinia.
The photo of your shadow has a real Faulknerian vibe to it.
Working on my own road has a Faulknerian feel to it. Thanks, Liz.
You’re welcome, Tim.
So beautiful
Thanks, Vermavkv
You were working hard. The cats…always wonderful to see.
Thanks, Gigi.
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Those kitties look exhausted from all that road work! A do appreciate a hard days work, but there are other options for wheelbarrows … some are even big and yellow and named after a particular insect that crawls slowly on the ground..just saying hehehe.
I’ve consistently done one of those until I saw the price tags. Even used, small tractors with front-end loaders are out of sight. Two hours of manual labor once a year works just fine. Thanks, Brian.
Working hard! Love your supervisors!
Thanks, Nancy.
Long live that long-haired rednecked crew. We need crews like that here. Great shadow pic. I do like shadow pics.
You don’t have local road workers to fill potholes? The Village crew was filling potholes on the public side of Price Ln., while I was filling potholes on the private side of Price Ln.
Well, this is Scotland where councils have been run into the ground by the Scottish gov. So now libraries are closing, swimming pools, historical sites. Oh yeah. Drains overflow cos streets ae not swept.. Also the weight of electric vehicles wrecks roads. So yeah we got potholes all right.
They need to add a road tax on electric cars for the government to embezzle. The big rig truckers out here have to pay a good chunk of change in road taxes.
Shhh, Tim. We don’t want Starmer reading this. Hahaha!
Ken., aye, Inchy…. we will get locked up. Obvi now they don’t imprison murderers, etc, they have to fill the jails someone, right?
Haha!
There may be some good points if I was jailed, gal. I might get the bladder and Angina operations done, and my hearing aids mended!
No rent to pay, and no laundry to do, no dangerous cooking, yes… you’ve made a good point there. Hehe!
I wish you a great new year and some special unexpected dollops of luck! ā„
Ken what? You are so right. All you forgot about was the heating. I wish you the same re the new year. Hell, we all need some dollops of good luck. Spadefuls in fact.
Scottish, Ken.
A sore point that Starmer lie. I wish he would…lie… in a morgue… Oops!
Lol… you sure ain’t alone!
I didn’t know I had this much hatred left in me, hen. Starmer, what a charmer. Grr!
He really needs to go.
I hear that China is sending up another unmanned probe to the moon. Could do anything to encourage the pensioner-killer to take a ride in it? Especially as it’s a one-way trip.
Hahaha!
Hee hee… Trrepressible Inchy
Merci on AMi! Haha!
But if not how about we get a spacesuit to go with Timothy’s wheelbarrow,,,,,
Not you’re talking! Hahaha! ā„š
Lol… I have my moments.
And much enjoyed ones, gal! ā„
Aww… thank you. Keeping my eyes open for a space suit.
I can ask nore, gal. Now, I’ll write a begging letter to Putin and NASA. Hehehe! X
Ge in there!
Love it, just how I feel, gal.
I’ve never hated a politician more. Grrr!
He’s unbelievable. There he was the other wittering about sorting out gig concert tickets so that biz with Oasis would never happen again…. Obviously this is our number one priority and causing the Uk public sleepless nights. Meantime the country teeters on the brink of financial ruin, Milliband runs amok like a lunatic, there’s cover ups galore of unspeakable things, boat arrivals daily, a vacation’s wait in A and E. People being locked up for tweets while murderers and rapists walk free. Pensioners unable to afford to put on an afternoon’s heating, To name but a few. You could not make it up.
Amazing how people continue to elect crooks and imbeciles whose priorities are all backwards.
Brilliantly put, perfect!
I wish I’d written that.
You should ent it to newspaper comment section, I loved it! šš¼
Inchy, you are too kind. You write prety brilliantly yourself actually.
Merci Mon Ami. ā„
My friend, you are more than welcome.
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Oh and cos this is a high end area…don’t ask how we managed to get into it….. well it is all yummy mummies driving huge heavy electric people carriers all over the streets. As for road tax…well …the roasters in the Scotish Greens who were handed huge powers by Sturgeon despite receiving like 2 percent of the vote, want us taxed for every mile we drive when we already pay through the nose.
Pay by the mile has been considered in various states in the US of A. Government people love electric cars because they can control drivers more easily.
Yep…….. Those I know who had one got rid of them PDQ.
The thing is he got in on one of the lowest turnouts ever. He got in on less than Corbyn lost with years ago. The Tory vote was split by Reform. As for why people never turned out? So many feel politically homeless. But he carries on like he has this huge mandate from a public who back him when every day brings more scandal, more incompetence, more going after the public. From the farmers to the pensioners, he does not have a mandatae from the public to do half the things he’s done because the things he’s done were never put to the public.
As you may know, people who are successful in politics fall somewhere on the psychopathic spectrum. Some more than others.
Well he sure does. He’s frankly driving the country onto the rocks. His latest is reporting Musk to the terror squad asnd wanting him extradited over here. This is the level of him. He was only in power a few days and he was in bother for taking all kinds of gifts worth thousands. The excuse on the Taylor Swift concert tickets was they were for his children……
Sad.
The road is named Price Ln? Makes sense that it should be named after the one-man long-haired redneck road crew member fixing the potholes.
Price Ln on the west side of the ditch that we used to own runs between Target Rd and Dixon Rd. The Price Ln I own on the east side of the ditch is like a spur of the Price Ln on the west side of the ditch. If there werenāt other houses along east Price Ln, I would have the Village change it to El Cheo Drive.
That is a lot of work for New Year’s Eve! I see the kitties were helping out… in their dreams!
The kitties sent kittypathic telekinec support. Thanks, Marina.
Well done, all of you!
Wishing you and yours a wonderful 2025
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Bushwa! That’s incredibly hard work, Tim. I hope you are not regretting it today. My back screams pain, just from doing a load of laundry, or trying to find something on a low shelf. I can’t even imagine…
I hope you get to balance all that with a relaxing day today. A lovely New Year’s Eve to you and Laurie. Hugs.
I have to say that picking up a load of laundry is much harder on my back than shoveling. Not much bending over is involved with shoveling and pushing a wheelbarrow. Picking up a basket of wet clothes is an awkward deadlift. Ouch every time I do it. I was feeling fine this morning until I carried in the wingback chair. Now my back is complaining. Thanks, Teagan.
That sounds like a lot of work. You’re a good citizen/ neighbor Tim.
I own the road. So I have to maintain it. There are a lot of people who have to cross the ditch on the culvert I have to maintain and repair because the Village nor the Conservancy will maintain it, even though it’s not my property. These people would not get to their house or out if the culvert collapsed, which it has tried to do several times over the past few years. Those folks drive by and look at me like I’m some sort of illegal laborer hired to work on the road. They won’t lift a hand to help. Thanks, Brad.
Very nice and responsible of you!
Impressive work!!!
Thanks, Linda.
I guess that’s the Price you pay when you have your own road! I bet you slept like a cat after all that work! š
That’s the price the Price’s pay for owning a freaking road. I slept with lots of cats on me. Thanks, Tiffany.
The cats are enjoying being lazy while you work hard! š such cute babies
Thanks, Becky.
hahahahha, those lazy cats.. They’ll wake for cheese! š«
Geez!
HWWT – Have Wheelbarrow Will Travel –
Have Wheelbarrow Will Travel
Reads the card of a man
A man without helpers
In a ditch bank land.
A big barrow for hire
Like the call of the wind
A barrow for hire
Is a man called Tim.
Love the shadow shot! xx
Hahaha! Perfect! Thanks, Resa.
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Wow! That’s good exercise!
It is. Thanks, Dawn.
Busy! What a way to keep fit!
Thanks Julie.