Sidewalks? again? As God is my Witness . . . . . . . 41

One of the MANY bonuses of retiring is staying up late to watch hockey games . .  and waking up early because your dog does not seem to understand daylight "savings" time. 

I watched "my" Minnesota Wild win yet another game and it was on the road.  They begin the year playing only 5 of their first 18 games at home so wins have been few . . BUT I SAW ONE!! 

The great thing about hockey is they are always ALWAYS about 2.5 hours, a little less actually.

In other news I installed a NEXT Hello Doorbell and am amazed at how much traffic our little circle gets.  Gotta turn off that motion monitor so every time a car drives past we get an alert.  it was fun for the first half hour.

We have had this doorbell for a month but because our ringer is up high and my arms were down low . . . .I could not get to it.  Yesterday I got the ladder out and bing bang boom and a couple swear words later we can watch what is going on outside on our phones, a little boring.  But now we can see who does not pick up their dog poop in our yard.

One thing I did learn was that my PMR (polymyalgia rheumatica)  did not bring on my knee problems.  The school of thought was "why did both of these pop up at once" but after climbing up and down a ladder  . . . yea - my knee got's to go! or it actually it went already but the cortisone is still working.

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I have heard there might be some controversy on the Hibbard Street reconstruction and SIDEWALKS.  Of course there is.   Been there done that and I got a few council members and a few alder persons were pissed at me when I voted NO on a sidewalk vote on one side of a street.

My reasoning for THAT was the houses were way to close to the street and large trees and yada yada and there was a perfectly good sidewalk on the other side.  HOWEVER - I am still 100% pro sidewalk.

OH - I hate shoveling and I HATE having to pay for it because "I" rarely use MY sidewalk - but you don't have a sidewalk for yourself.  You have it for everybody else - socialism!

I tell you what though - I am DAMN glad my neighbors have a sidewalk in January when I'm relearning how to walk again in a flat sidewalk and not a humped road with traffic.     

I drove up and down Hibbard and there is no reason to not have sidewalks. One block will be rough but that is all.  There are FAR FAR greater problems Council has to deal with on that nightmare project.

More on that to come but I give the current council a high 5 on tackling this street.  So brave. 

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Nice to see a 5 time draft dodger lead the Grand Veterans Day Parade. So so proud

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Today is the 41 year anniversary of "As God is My Witness I Thought Turkeys Could Fly"  episode of WKRP.   I remember watching it live and almost pee'd my pants