Spent afternoon driving through mist and fog on winding mountain roads in Vermont. Stopped at the look out at Hogback Mountain to stretch.

So, the city’s been tearing up our road, Walton Street, the last couple of days. Overnight. They’ve been hack hammering and using all sorts of noisy machinery. I think they’re replacing the sewer line.

You have to applaud anyone who can do this kind of heavy construction overnight. If we had had our windows open it’d be pretty unbearable.

At least the weather’s been bad, and it’s been cold and rainy.

We’re reprising a picture we had last year about this time from Chicago. Rahm Emanuel was inaugurated Chicago’s mayor yesterday. Emanuel talked a bit in his speech about the good things of cultural diversity gives us. More than we thought as we listened our (Maine’s) current governor would even dare to think about, if he thinks about things at all. We don’t know if Chicago’s a better place than Maine right now. LePage doesn’t reflect Maine. Chicago’s chief executive’s better than Maine’s, however, at least taken at face value.