It is summer time and the roads are tore up....

We all have a love/hate of summer time..

We love the weather, we love the bar-b-ques.

We love heading to the water.. be it fishing or

swimming.  The sports are alive and well.

The cook outs, visiting... vacationing, yep...

it is all good with us.

But we HATE road construction.  the waiting in

a hot car if you aren't lucky enough to have A/C.

Or just waiting.. or if you didn't allow enough time.

you are late and not happy.

It doesn't matter if it is city, state or federal. It

all is the pits.

Here at our place, we have the state tearing up

the roads. Last week for 2 or was it 3 days of

waiting 25 minutes to get 3 miles. Getting from

the city of Hope to the City of Sandpoint took a

lot of patience. Same thing going from Ponderay

(just outside of Sandpoint) to Hope. The wait..

Then getting to go, only to have to go 3 miles and

wait again. One area, just trying to get out of the

mess, involved a turning lane light and the railroad

tracks. So if you made it thru the traffic light after

4 switches.. and thought you were free.. only to

see the gates come down and lights start for the

train that came down the tracks.. for another 10

minutes.

What gets me, is the fact they tore up the end

of our road which joins the Highway, (and

every road in Kootenai) last MONTH.  So we

have gently drove on to hwy 200 over the 2 inch

cut in the road. And very gently and slowly going

off hwy 200 (and hoping the car behind you, doesn't

ram your backend as you enter the city roads).

Now they have laid out a 2 and half inch layer of

tar on the south side of the hwy 200, for 3 blocks.

That is it.. that was Thursday. Now it is Tuesday

morning.. it is still the same.  When are they coming

back to finish up the job?  And as far as I am

concern.. my humble opinion, that is... why do they

tear up something, that they aren't going to finish in

a day or two?

And don't even get me started about the junction of

Hwy 95 and Kootenai Cutacross Road... they have

been tearing up that area almost a year.. and it

doesn't seem like it is going to be done any time soon.

Don't even see workmen there anymore. And it is a maze

to drive thru on the Kootenai Cutacross side, with the

entrance of Walmart blocked off. The one that is used

the most. Surprised that Walmart hasn't complained.

Summer time and living isn't always easy..