This week has slipped away. They started working on the road on Tuesday, installed that ugly clay/shale dirt.





Suddenly, it was a real road again, and I already forgot what it was like in its damaged state.

It's under that 4 inches of snow that fell this morning. You can't tell the difference just looking at the picture, but I can. Down there at the end, road is at the same level as the bridge.



Yesterday, Carl worked on the bad place on the riverbank. We need some more fill dirt, but the foundation is laid.





and put some boulders next to the bridge.



Today it's snowing hard, so nobody is working.

He helped me look under the Brown Palace cabin to see if the crawl space is completely ruined - it's not in great shape, but it's not completely ruined.

Monday they will finish up for now. This doesn't completely solve my problems: I am still not going to be able to drive up to the house or get my cars out of the garage. We have to wait for the ground to thaw in front of my house, sometime next month. But I'll be able to park on this side of the bridge.

Oh! and when I was out walking in the snow today, I saw a flying bug. Why should we care? It hatched out of the river and fish eat those bugs, also the birds - it's biological rebirth.