“End of Road Work” – My Happy Sign

Her Ladyship and I went for a drive today, and I can tell you all that it’s official.  Every highway, secondary road, back road, country trail, and a good percentage of driveways are now under construction.  Road crews are busy as bees digging up or smoothing out every road in New Hampshire, and most of Massachusetts too.  There are some solid reasons for this.  The pandemic has kept many people off the roads, so it’s holding up fewer people – although the DPW doesn’t want to advertise this.  They want us to think they’re holding up thousands. Also, and some of you may not know this, but Juno, for which the month of June was named, was the Roman Goddess of Road Construction.  Oh, yes.  Rumor and folklore have it that she personally oversaw the resurfacing of the Appian Way, limiting chariots to one lane. Continue reading ““End of Road Work” – My Happy Sign”