November Part 2

Our area had all the alley raised recently.  The project started in October and finished the beginning of November.  We were thankful we had a second entrance to our house.  Most of our neighbors do not and had to figure out how to navigate the trench down the middle. 

Brittany posed for me and you can tell by her mask that it smelled.  Of course, it is the sewer for our alley.











After they dug it all up, they lined it with new bricks and raised it by adding dirt, sand and then cement on the sides and new covers in the middle.  You can see the pile of sand that was on our main road.

Hmmm, it is going to be higher than our courtyard.

All finished.  It looks nice. The entrance to our courtyard is off to the right.  Our landlord is planning to smooth our entry into the alley with a cement ramp.  If you look closely, there is a drainage hole off to the right in the corner of the cement.

The whole process took some weeks. The reason it was done, as far as we understand, was to raise the alley so that it is still higher than the sewer our alley sewer dumps into.  sounds like a good thing.

Accident

Ann and Brittany were in an accident a few months ago and we are just now getting it into the blog.  This accident turned out, overall, well - as neither Brittany nor Ann were seriously injured.  Actually Brittany was not injured at all, except for the trauma of the experience. Ann had some minor injuries such as scrapes and a good size bump on her elbow.

It all started when Ann and Brittany were out on Ann's little 50cc motorbike (Honda Cub).  Her front tire suddenly went flat and after finding out where the nearest repair place was, began to push the motorbike with Brittany pushing from behind.  The place was not far, but it was up a hill, so Ann really appreciated Brittany's help pushing.

As they pushed the bike on the right hand side of the road, right by the sidewalk, uncharacteristically for roads here, it was vacant of any other vehicle...Until a lone motorbike turned onto the road at the top of the hill.  Ann and Brittany noticed that he was heading straight for them and seeing this, Brittany jumped out of the way in time onto the sidewalk.  Ann also began to get away, but as she was holding the bike up, she was knocked to the ground from the impact of the much larger motorbike.  The man was intoxicated (it was 3 in the afternoon), was apologetic,  and to Ann's dismay, left on his motorbike.  We hope he didn't run into anyone else.

We are thankful that the worst was shaken nerves and that Russell came to the rescue as Ann's arm was in too much pain to push the motorbike (with a flat tire) any where.  Ann got back on the motorbike and drove in a few days, although not without extra caution!