Fabric From The Attic

I slept pretty well this morning because the Beeping Toms appear to be down the street a little bit. Or at least they aren’t making the abominable beeping noises from their construction trucks backing up. They’re replacing the pipes and gasline and stuff under the ground.

Sometimes I wake up to the earth shaking and the beeping trucks right outside my window. The shaking then comes from them banging the street really hard with the fist of their earth-moving trucks until the asphalt breaks. I was really mad the other day because I wanted to sleep in peace (not piece, ha ha). They start around 6 or 6:30 a.m. and especially since it’s Summer I want quiet mornings to sleep in. I am trying to find reasons to get up earlier, however. But this is a sidetrack. —

The other day the little orange men said that they are going to grind the street down about 4 inches I think. So the street will be lower when they are finished then it was before they started. They better be right, too. Or we are going to scrape up the new street and our cars just as (or maybe even more than) before, because I think the new driveway is as steep or more steep than the old one used to be. The beeping toms said that they can’t level the street lower than that because there are train tracks there! Can you imagine that we live right by undercover train tracks?! They said that when they start carving the road then things will really shake. (Ahah! I hear the back-up-beeping now. It’s like an everyday, sometimes all-day occurance!) So, they had better not do it at 6 in the morning or I’ll be after them in my little slippers and robe chasing them down the street acting and looking crazy!!!