An update on asshattery

The Mud Season is almost done, the gravel roads are finally firm enough that the County Road Commission can send the equipment operators out with graders and trucks with the under-body blades to attempt to smooth out the washboard and fill in the potholes. I noticed when I went to town recently that our road had been graded.

Sort of. Turns out whoever was operating the truck was again some shit weasel who can't drive a truck in reverse. As usual, the straight part of the road got graded, more or less, but the operator turned around by the neighbor's driveway and ignored the curved section of road with the worst ruts, the biggest holes, and the largest protruding rocks. Guess he couldn't figure out how to back in to the dead end with no snowbanks to guide him. Good to know that (a) the shit weasel is consistent and (b) said weasel has figured out he can do a shit job because no one down at the county shed is going to do a damn thing about it. Of course, I figured that out at the road commission meeting I went to. Two of the commissioners spent more of their time lecturing me about calling such a "nice guy" an asshat than they did expressing any concern about the fact a county employee had decided he really doesn't need to do his job as long as the commissioners find him personally likable.

You know, our road is included the miles that the road commission budget covers. Maybe it's only a few hundred feet but it does factor into their applications for grant money and in calculating their budget as a whole. There was speculation at the meeting that the part that's still on the books as active county road actually extends about 900 feet more than it currently gets treated as. It's quite possible that on paper the road still terminates up by our barn. I am becoming increasingly tempted  to research that question. If it's never been formally abandoned maybe we should start pushing for a new culvert and a whole lot of gravel for the entire length, not just the part that ends at the property line.

Starting next week a full-size L'Anse Area Schools bus is going to start driving in here. It's a long story, but we have family staying with us for a while who have school age kids. I am moderately curious to see how the bus driver reacts to that section of road the county likes to pretend doesn't exist.