Concrete Being Poured---Construction 2008, Ohio Street, Racine, Wisconsin

Everyone we are definitely getting closer to the east side of Ohio Street being done.

If the weather cooperates

the paving will start on

Monday, 30 June 2008.

They will be paving from

north to south

starting just north of 16th Street.

The paving is expected to be done by

Tuesday, 1 July 2008 evening.

Once the paving is done

it needs to cure and gain strength.

This will take about one week.

Once the concrete is strong enough

then the curb and gutter will be attached.

Driveway aprroaches

will be done after

the curb and gutter.

Also, the contractor will be starting

BEFORE 6 A.M.

to prepare the equipment before pouring the concrete.

The contractor will also

be there well after dark

sawing joints in order to prevent uncontrolled cracking.

This will be both

Monday, 30 June 2008

and

Tuesday, 1 July 2008.

If everything goes well

people living on the east side of Ohio Street

will be able to get into their driveways

in about three weeks after

the cement, curb, gutter, and driveways are done.

This is the company doing the road construction

Community Engineering & Building Services LLC

4701 W Mill RdMilwaukee, WI 53218
telephone (414) 353-9101

fax (414)353-9102

cebsllc@sbcglobal.net

Flower Power---Pictures from the garden

Some pictures from the garden.

I hope everybody likes them.

In an earlier blog I posted how the front

by the window used to look.

With a few dollars more

and

a lot of hard work

we finally got this part

of the garden looking better.

Now on to the rest of the yard.

Some More Pictures of the Ohio Street, Racine, Wisconsin Road Construction

My mother got a real kick out of this machine!!

LOL She insisted on pictures of it. So, here they are. The road is getting closer to being done. Oh wait that is just one side of it. When they are finished with the side closest to our house they will be working on the other side. Folks it is going to be a long summer.

PLEASE REMEMBER

TO SLOW DOWN

WHEN GOING THROUGH

CONSTRUCTION SITES

IF YOU GET A TICKET

GOING THROUGH A WORK ZONE

THE COST OF THE TICKET

IS DOUBLED

YOU MAY EVEN END UP

IN PRISON

ANYWHERE FROM

3 1/2 YEARS

TO

10 YEARS

DEPENDING

ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES

Wisconsin has almost 2,000 crashes in work zones a year.

Remember these are people working in the work zones.

Some day it might be you or someone you know.

It is not worth risking the worker's lives or yours.

For any of you that have been

turning left on Ohio Street in the work zone area

I hope you get a big fat ticket you deserve it.

There are signs posted stating no left turn.

There is not enough room for you to turn left

and you hold up other traffic.

Nothing like blatantly breaking the law.

The speed limit laws for Wisconsin link:

http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/safety/motorist/behaviors/speeding/laws.htm

Work zone safety for Wisconsin link:

http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/safety/motorist/workzones/

Link to the Real PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

I know this will probably anger a lot of people and I honestly do NOT care!!!!

I am so sick of

everybody telling me

or sending me things

on the Pledge of Allegiance

with the

One Nation Under God

in bold and big font

and telling me

I need to circulate the e-mail

to keep it in.

They are all

under the impression

that it was

in the original

Pledge of Allegiance

and it was NOT in it.

To read

the history of

the Pledge of Allegiance

click on the link below:

http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm

This is the orginal

Pledge of Allegiance

as written

by Francis Bellamy

in 1892.

'I

pledge allegiance

to my Flag

and the Republic

for which

it stands,

one nation,

indivisible,

with liberty

and justice for all.'

Enough said.

If my family and friends

decide to read this

do you finally get the hint?

How many e-mails

do I have to send

telling you this

before you stop

badgering me about this?

For everyone out there, If you are going to send e-mails, blog, et cetera about something like this

please do your research before badgering friends and family about the topic.

TO MAKE MYSELF CLEAR

I believe that religion belong in the family.

If you want to go to church

or

practice your religion

you do NOT

have to bother

your friends

and

family about it.

Things were NOT any better

when God or prayers

were in the schools or workplace.

If it was

there would not have been

open and okayed separation, lynchings, slavery and so forth.

These were people who believed

that their religion

was "the" religion

(and how many so called Christian religions are there anyway?).

Things are worse

because

some people do not see fit

to actually teach their children how to behave,

to respect others and their differences,

make excuses for them when they do something wrong,

think that redneck jokes are funny et cetera.

I think you get the picture.

The next time you see

an inappropriate joke, cartoon, e-mail

think about yourself

and what kind of jokes could be made about you

and see if you still think it is funny.

Gas Line Break Scare--NO fires, explosions, or injuries

A little excitement today with the road construction.

Somebody managed to hit a gas line today.

We did leave the house and we just went down the block,

but we were able to go back in the house less than a half hour later.

Luckily nothing exploded, caught fire, and nobody got hurt.

That is was is most important NOBODY GOT HURT.

My neighbor takes care of other people's children

and it is scary just thinking about how bad the situation could have been.

This most certainly could have been avoided,

but even when people try to be careful accidents can happen.

I was outside just a few minutes before

and I will say it did not look like the workers were trying to hurry.

They knew the gas line was there and was using a hand shovel.

I do not know exactly how it happened

because I went inside a few minutes before it did happen.

WE energies and the fire department

was there in minutes to shut the gas off

and did not leave until everything was okay.

The road construction workers

and the energy company

worked fast and kept their cool.

This was taken from the front step.

This was taken from down the block.

This one was also taken down the block.

I just zoomed in a little bit for this one.

This was taken from our front yard.

This is also taken from our front yard.

You can see the yellow caution tape.

That is where the gas line broke.

What I do alter in my pictures occasionally:

I try to crop out license plates and neighbors houses

(even though they are already on Google).

I sometimes crop out excess sky, road, grass, that sort of stuff.

I want the main part of the picture to show

and not all the other stuff like blue sky and grass.

I will use the contrast and auto color buttons if the picture is too dark.

I do not do anything else to them.

Pictures of my birthday presents 6 June 2008 continued

The last of my birthday presents.

My best friend growing up and I

decided years ago to stop doing "birthday"

because there were getting to be too many people in both of our lives.

We almost call each other,

but I really did not expect a call this year.

My birthday fell on the weekend

and she normally goes out of town

where there is limited cell phone service.

She went into town to get some things

and to call and wish me a Happy Birthday.

I know she thinks of me;

So, I really did not care that she could not call,

but was happy that she was able to.

This is from my friend Beth

and was totally unexpected as were most of my presents.

Beth has limited income (like so many of us)

and I would have been happy with just an e-mail saying Happy Birthday.

I am still trying to figure out how she knew it was my birthday.

I think a little birdy named Lori might have said something.?

Anyway, Beth

if you do read this

thank you very much and the chocolate was delicious.

My friend Linda crocheted and gave me this dishcloth along with bath salts.

I laughed out loud when I saw the card.

Very funny.

This is what I bought with my gift card from Waldenbooks/Borders.

I realized I forgot to photograph the actual card the gift card was in.

Sorry about that.

Maybe one day I will add it to the blog.

Bye Bye Ohio Street Bridge (pictures included)

The bridge going across Ohio Street in Racine, Wisconsin came down Saturday, 7 June 2008.

This is what I did on my Saturday morning.

Ha Ha Ha

I left to go grocery shopping with my mother shortly after the first half of the bridge came down.

Of course that is when something interesting happened.

You can not tell but off to the right of the first picture is our driveway

and one of the crew parked his pick-up truck sideways across the driveway.

I bet you can guess what happened next being the intelligent people you are.....

yeppers it got hit by a piece of the bridge.

I guess someone did not think the piece was as close as it was.

I wonder how they explained that one to the boss and the insurance company.

Hee hee hee.

I sure wish I had been home to get a picture of that...oh well.

It seems so strange not seeing the bridge outside the window anymore.

If I remember right it went up the summer before I started kindergarten

and that was 1969.

Yes I am showing my age and I do not care....ha ha ha.

I am going to miss being able to go up on the bridge to look out and see what is happening or to take pictures. I really enjoyed doing that and when my nieces and nephews visit they always liked going up on the bridge. I keep wondering what my grandparents and father would think of all the changes. I have one brother that has not been back here in over 20 years. I bet he would not even know where anything is anymore. It is hard to believe all the changes that have taken place since I graduated in 1982. I just wish more of it was for the positive instead of the negative.

Pictures of my birthday presents 6 June 2008

This year was a really good birthday year. I will even forgive the pouring rain, severe thunderstorm watch that turned into a severe thunderstorm warning, and the tornado watch that turned into a tornado warning. Luckily the tornado did not touch down and was farther west. It almost always rains on my birthday and many years the severe storms have hit also. It is just the way the weather patterns are this time of year.

Well, I received $60.00 in birthday money and had planned on using it for gas or groceries or something stupid like that....LOL....actually I did use some of it on groceries yesterday, but that is okay considering the price of things.

I was told I had to stop work today and I did. Linda if you read this I am sorry I did not come back to work, but with the storms and gas prices and honestly by the time I got home I was/am just plain tired. So, her present will be added at a later date.

I feel bad because I got presents from my wonderful boss Pam (the Borders gift card pictured below), a special birthday cd of my favorite "American Idol" singers from this season made by Lori and her beautiful daughter Sarah along with personalized candy (so cool), my brother Scott gave me "Rush Hour 3" and "Mirror Mask" on dvd. I also got a check for $20.00 from my brother Paul and sister-in-law Sandi which I bought the 2 pairs of pants at Steve and Barry's for only $8.98 each. Steve and Barry's re-opened on 4 June 2008 in Regency Mall, Racine, Wisconsin.

I bought this beautiful striped sweater on clearance at Christopher & Banks for only $9.97 and the t-shirt (also on clearance) at Sears for get this only $1.99. Yep that is what I said only $1.99? I even had the clerk double check for me in case somebody screwed up, but it was the correct price. There are some good deals out there if you are willing to look for them.

I was going to go to the art museum but I thought the bad weather was going to come earlier than it did and did not want to get caught walking around downtown in it. So, my mother and I went to the mall to look around.