N3 - News Update

Do you remember way back in May when I began this little blogging diary of mine?
About the fourth entry was on May 18th, and it had to do with the cable guys coming
to install at our neighbors. However, the light pole on which cable lines are attached is located in our yard. If you recall these same cable guys proceeded to
paint a lovely, meandering flourescent orange line all around our yard to show where other lines are buried, so things could be avoided when they started digging to install Bill and Mary's line.

After painting the lovely flourescent orange path, they surrounded the path with many, many orange flags so as to catch the diggers' attention, I assume. Then these same cable guys disappeared never to be seen again. As you can imagine, after two or three lawn mowings the paint was no longer there. Then, after a month the flags disappeared. Now, I'm not saying that Don threw them away, but one of our trash bags had a suspicious orange tint as it went sailing into the trash truck.

Early this week the telephone rang. A neighbor across the street called to say he was concerned because a truck had just pulled up and two guys with shovels were wandering around in our yard. As you can see from this dated blog, it was now
September 18th. Let me see, I believe it has been four months, and the diggers have arrived. Yep, when Don went out, they readily admitted that they were the cable line
diggers, and where, they wondered was their lovely little path.

So Don showed them where he remembered the path to run (it was indelibly etched in his memory). They did their digging, buried the lines, left some lines hanging limply on the light pole, and went happily on their way. Their part of the job is apparently finished. Installers must come now to do the hook-up.
Let's see, according to the cable time table, they should be here about January 18th.