No, this post is not about the cute signs of spring, like loud blue jays, or old-fashioned maple sugar buckets on trees, or little buds setting on the lilacs or other niceties all of which are beginning to show up, but about the less desirable signs, like the church smelling like skunk (it is mating season) and the state of our roads.
The frost heaves are amazing and we haven't even gotten to mud season. (Frost heave season always comes before mud season.) It's like driving on a roller coaster, sort of a WHEE! up and down one goes as one hits a rise in the road. One can go flying, it feels, off the road if one hits a heave just right. Or one can imagine breaking the car axle if the wheel hits a pothole just so. Simply put, it is wild driving out there right now. I don't dare go above 50 on the straight aways because of the unpredictability of the road surface.
Sometimes they are posted officially and sometimes they are announced by simple signs like this.
Right around the corner will come mud season for sure when the roads are posted (i.e., weight limits are set and posted), which they aren't yet.
But for right now, it's watching the pavement fall apart... which in the fall always becomes a good source of political fodder.
By the way, when you see a sign, 'Frost heaves,' it has nothing to do with the late poet's digestive system.
3 comments:
We have frost bumps. Heaves sound far worse than ours.
My straight drive is already muddy and the Prius was thinking about bogging down tonight. The bendy driveway is better. My neighbor plows up all the gravel in the straight drive then comes along in the spring and tries to plow it all back. If I won the lottery I'd think about paving it. Maybe. 600+ feet? Maybe not.
I remember seeing those signs around when we first moved to VT and thinkging "what in the world ..?) One quickly learns!
Gotta love VT.
RDM, The state, in all its wisdom, did a half-a job of repaving Route 12 and 100A — they slapped down some asphalt on top of the road and didn't really smooth it out. Now it's flaky crumbly and downright slippery. The best heave there is comes just north of Barnard on Rte 12 N. It can really pitch you if you're not paying attention.
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