The City of Parowan is a universal service provider. That is, the City manages all services necessary for a comfortable existence. The City provides electricity, culinary water, a library, a swimming pool, garbage collection, irrigation water, law enforcement, a retirement home, and free universal health care. (Ooops, skip that last one, the US Congress is working on it right now, so why saddle Parowan with the burden.) One of the quirks that comes with all this utility is a very wide street-side right-of-way. Between the edge of the street and The Homestead is a vast expanse of lawn that appears to belong to us, but does not. And it would be foolish to plant anything in it either because, without warning, the world can be filled with the sound of multiple track-hoes for the better part of a week while a new waterline is installed.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
New Pipeline
The City of Parowan is a universal service provider. That is, the City manages all services necessary for a comfortable existence. The City provides electricity, culinary water, a library, a swimming pool, garbage collection, irrigation water, law enforcement, a retirement home, and free universal health care. (Ooops, skip that last one, the US Congress is working on it right now, so why saddle Parowan with the burden.) One of the quirks that comes with all this utility is a very wide street-side right-of-way. Between the edge of the street and The Homestead is a vast expanse of lawn that appears to belong to us, but does not. And it would be foolish to plant anything in it either because, without warning, the world can be filled with the sound of multiple track-hoes for the better part of a week while a new waterline is installed.
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If they leave the track-hoes on "your property," I believe that means it is okay for you to use them when they go home at 3PM. You must have some old stumps or concrete that needs to be dug up, right? I bet one good swing of that track-hoe bucket would straighten out the leaning shed.
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