I was late getting to work this morning. I don't like that on a Monday morning - people are usually calling because there's always something that broke over the weekend.

So, I'm on Golf Road by my house, right in the middle of the construction, when I noticed that the traffic just isn't moving. At all. It's hard to see, as we're heading east into the morning sun, but as I look ahead, I can see something that looks like a crane and it appears to be over the road ahead. As we all inch forward I realize that it's not a crane.

The crews had put up telephone poles along the road months ago to run ether power or some signaling cables (there's not a lot of cables and they're pretty thin). We've been having some pretty good rain over the past week. Off and on, but when it rains, it rains. My guess is that it made the soil on the side of the hill by the parking lot to a strip mall a little soft. Why would I say that? because what I thought was a crane is actually a telephone pole leaning over the road, snapped cables and all. Carol had passed through here within the last 15-20 minutes and all was fine. Traffic was fine after that.

Gorgeous morning, though. Maybe we've turned the corner from the cold,wet Spring.