Tarred 'n Feathered... No, Just Tarred 'n Stoned

Did you realize that we can have two seasons at the same time here in the state of Wisconsin? Yep, we do. Let's see, if you guessed summer and road repair, you are correcto mundo. 

I am not complaining the road to Stoddard is being resurfaced, just why the road repair crew couldn't have worked on the five miles while I was away? 

Instead, each day this week here are the signs I have been  seeing indicating road work ahead. Who knows which mile but there'll be no center stripe and loose gravel. What, they don't want to warn you about the tar?

No center stripe... it's there now.

Loose gravel wreaks havoc on a car's paint job.

Truck traffic is abundant on a usually quiet road.

A once relatively quiet hightway drive is quite a'buzz with the road crews, trucks and machinery. There's even a FOLLOW ME car to follow on the opposite side of the street as the holes were filled with tar and finally sprayed with oily tar followed by a layer of gravel. I am sure this is doing a number on the underside of all our cars. Please be careful bikers and cyclists as HWY 162 is going to have loose gravel for a while.

Recent heavy fog combined with morning commuters made an interesting Twilight Zone scene Wednesday am. The budget must have been cut as there were no workers with those SLOW/STOP signs as the workmen swept the center line.  Seriously, do they have a death wish? Goodness gracious. Not the time to cut workers.  Go figure.

Anyhow, we will be glad when the crews have moved on and quiet returns to the roads. We get awfully spoiled here in the End of the Rainbow Valley...