Last week I came out of 10Box as it started sprinkling. I knew there was rain coming, but I thought I might miss it. I DID! Mostly. I climbed into T-Hoe, hearing a weird noise. It was a steady sound. Like something hard hitting something hard.
"Oh," I thought. "I guess maybe there's some hail. Or just hard raindrops. Must be hitting those garden things over there."
10Box had angered me of late, having a big display of plants sitting on metal racks, taking up FOUR parking spaces in front of the building. That meant the lazy ne'er-do-wells took advantage of my rightful handicap spaces. More than usual. Most had been sold, and the parking spaces opened up again. But a few racks remained on the sidewalk.
Anyhoo... I looked over that way, to see if hail was falling. I didn't see any. Just a few raindrops plinking onto T-Hoe's windshield. THEN a movement caught my eye! The reason for that sound:
ROOF MEN! Over on top of the mini-mall building that has my pharmacy at the far end, then a Chinese restaurant, then what used to be the urgent care clinic. Huh. I figured they must be putting up that sign. I thought it was there before, but maybe not. I think it's for the Chinese restaurant. That sure was a lot of men to put up a sign. I don't think they were taking it down, because of the noise. Which was more like hammering than prying.
All this time, I've thought those men were working on the sign. Until I tried to zoom in on my second picture:
That looks like some loose shingles there on the end. Maybe they were tearing out old shingles, and putting down new ones. That makes more sense than fiddling with a sign.
I hope they didn't get too wet. The rain slacked off as I left town.
2 comments:
Until it clicked that it was rain, I could not figure out what liquid it was...! Hopefully they got a lot done before it started to really come down.
jj,
Maybe it blew over quickly. I did notice that a couple workers put up their hoods in the second picture.
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