that is all. But stand by for other news.

Ineptitude, but
Some small neighborhood kindness
fixes most of that.

Be kind to people
let me say again, be kind:
karma is solid.

After last night’s deep soaking rain, the whole world was clean and shiny this morning. I started out to work.

Turns out that the Reclamation paving company, who won the bid to repave Route 20 between Schodack and New Lebanon doesn’t watch the weather forecast. They started yesterday by starting the next section of pavement and bailed when it started coming down in torrents. The rain effectly ate away at the section of pavement they were working on leaving a swiss-cheese-ness of potholes. The other cars and I traveled slowly, swerving around to avoid the many many holes.

Until, as I swerved one way to avoid two big potholes, a third one grabbed my tire, threw my hubcap away and dented my wheel rim. I pulled over as soon as I could and walked both sides of the road looking for the hubcap, but nothing.

When I got to the Nassau Stewarts, three guys asked me if I’d found my hubcap. When I came out, one fellow pointed out the big dent in my rim and snapped the other hubcap back into place.

Then I went on to Thoma Tire, just west of Nassau. There I made one young guy very happy by letting him drive a Fiat (although his shifting into reverse needed a little work LOL). They got me in and straightened the rim and said they didn’t think the tire was damaged but I should get my front end checked out. They charged me $16 and I gave them $20 for the prompt and neighborly service. They even gave me a detailed receipt I could turn in to the paving company.

I’m going back out tomorrow with boots to see if I can find the hubcap but I’m not holding my breath. Then I’ll have to schedule a visit to the Fiat guys. Thanks Road Guys. You mess up my morning daily and now this. Oh and the state transportation dept office said they heard another complaint about the quality of the road surface and would be checking it out.

After that auspicious start I went on to a most remarkably weird day. Altogether marvy. I am drinking a drink and now I’m going to go read some stuff.

UPDATED: updated today 9/20 with correct business name. For anyone else affected by the potholes:

CONTACT RECLAMATION, LLC
Reclamation, LLC, 621 Route 28, Kingston, NY 12401
Telephone: 845.331.6500 Facsimile: 845-331-3330

http://www.reclamationllc.net email: info@reclamationllc.net

I printed out a bit of gnomish haiku recently, just the first couple days of NaPoWriMo 2012 and well… I unabashedly liked it. I know, I know… be rational and all…

So today, I copied it into Scrivener and mushed it around a little and printed it out with the hope that editing it might make it easier to actually edit it.

That’s the plan.

These gnomic heroes
We sing their praises and names
With joy and much pride.

The bear wheels above
as he shambled long ago
stars bright then and now.

I am not complaining, and frankly I don’t think anyone is, about the rain which started last night. It’s been just steady in the way that fall rains often are. I remember a few years ago where it rained so much in September and October that fall seemed without a blue sky at all.

This year though, we’re seriously in need of rain. We’ve been short since spring. People keep asking how the Fiat does in snow – I don’t really know because we didn’t get much snow last winter. So we need rain.

The rain turned steady
the even grey sky flattened
earth relieved below.

Although the green leaves
turn towards september color,
in truth, it’s summer.