Without Warning the new sidewalk is torn up

So...The Neat L'l Bookshop will be closed today.  The contact numbers are posted on the door.  No one called us.  What happened?  Our only clue yesterday was a UNION GAS vehicle and numerous Link-Line Contractors Inc. vehicles in the neighbourhood.  Today:

...on the other side of the street.  We have contacted our county councillor.  Fred Morison, thank you for coming this morning at 7:00 a.m. and forwarding our complaint to the project managers.  Businesses do not quickly recover from being closed over and over again - unpredictably - during advertised OPEN HOURS.  At one point we were left with a two-foot drop from our door for two weeks, without any prior warning or any solution in sight.  We were closed.

From Rain in Summer ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

How Beautiful is the rain!

After the dust and heat,

In the broad and fiery street,

In the narrow lane,

How beautiful is the rain!

How it clatters along the roofs,

Like the tramp of hoofs!

How it gushes and struggles out

From the throat of the overflowing spout!

Across the window-pane

It pours and pours;

And swift and wide,

With a muddy tide,

Like a river down the gutter roars

The rain, the welcome rain!

(1807 - 1882) American poet, educator.
Works include, Paul Revere's Ride, Song of Hiaqwatha

"People love to talk but hate to listen.  Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers;  it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.  You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer."

~ Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 - August 22, 1942) American writer, poet.

Take to The Country ~ along The Grand

[Photos:  August 7, 2015]

View From Our Window This Week ~  Getting There

Smile for Today ~ Thought for Today

"We don't elect pacifists.  We admire the killer instinct in leaders.  It's genetic.  It is inevitable that people in high positions like Harper reach out for a bloody stick or sword.  The people who run the world today are psychopaths.  Everybody can see it, so why are we so obedient?  All they care about is the economy because that means money.  A virus is sweeping through the human race.  At the top, all over the world, we are rotting away as a species from the top down.  The leaders have gone beyond greed to the sheer amassing of power.  There is no effective morality, just power."

~ Farley Mowat (1960 - 2014) Canadian author, environmentalist ~ In an interview with author of PARTY OF ONE, STEPHEN HARPER AND CANADA'S RADICAL MAKEOVER, Michael Harris, Viking, 2014.

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"As I get older...I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government."
~ Dwight Morrow (1873 - 1931) Businessman, father of Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

"The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities."
~ Abraham Lincoln

Utilities ~ hydro, telephone, cable ~ Going Underground  on Talbot

Going Underground

[Photos:  August 4, 2015]