Abstract Thursday. : : Shapes

This is one of those accidental pictures that I decided was perfect for today's challenge. I leaned over the kitchen counter to pick something up and happened to catch this image on the viewfinder of my camera. I quite like all the shapes but especially the background of the remaining 'brown wall' outside the kitchen door.

Our days seem to be marked by the comings and goings of trucks from our driveway. More often than not, we have no idea why they are here until someone comes to the door to explain. This morning it was two guys with a machine to dig a trench to bury a conduit for the Comcast cable. They followed a fellow from PG&E who said he was there to mark the location of buried electrical wires and gas lines from the pole at the street to the house. 

This was starting to remind us of the time, eight years ago when John was weed whacking in the same location and almost whacked through the Comcast cable which was lying on the ground. We reported it to Comcast (yes we had Comcast before we got fed up with them and switched to AT&T). They got as far as sending someone to mark the location of the power and gas lines with flags up and down our lawn and all kinds of graffiti on the street, but the cable continued to be on the ground, where it remained until we got fed up with AT&T and switched back to Comcast.

We reported the cable on the ground to my friend Aaron from Flying Goat Coffee turned Comcast technician, and he reported it to Comcast which set the whole process in motion again. In the meantime he made temporary repairs and replaced the burned bits.

Back to the two guys who showed up this morning. I saw them fighting with the bucking trenching machine out in the side of the lawn which is mostly rock, and told John I thought they were finding out why the cable remained on the ground all these years. Sure enough they came to the door shortly thereafter saying they were going to have to send a different crew with a bigger trenching machine.

So the cable remains on the ground.

Meanwhile, there are droves of AT&T trucks everywhere, blocking traffic, requiring flag persons and making noise. We have stopped caring what they are doing.... 

Tomorrow a Serv-Pro crew is coming to clean our garage. It is going to be mostly cobweb removal....maybe we'll turn it into our bistro cafe for the winter months of Covid....