The cranes

 
Sepia Saturday for this week...

A canal boat with a crane, in front of a big church. How can I hope to come up with anything similar?

From my living room window, I see the utility truck with it's crane has again started working on some cables (Tuesday morning.) Obviously the last attempts (see The Watcher) weren't successful. I hope it won't affect any of my services here in the apartment.  This time they closed off the parking spaces underneath the work. That won't be very popular with the residents.

The workers have trucks that show a logo saying "cleanetworX" - doesn't sound like the power company. And not Spectrum TV. So I don't know who they represent really.

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And Wednesday a change where the whole alley was closed off and lots of new utility trailers appeared. The  parking spaces are still blocked off. 

And apparently this time they are pumping something out of the ground. I didn't watch  this very-low-action pursuit, so don't know if the other devices were used or not. They left at some time, as it was raining off and on.

Thursday morning a man appeared in the requisite utility worker bright green vest and put out a road closed sign and some traffic cones at 7 am (when I first looked out.) An hour later when the first train came by it had been raining steadily for a while, and the cones and signs were gone. I saw the truck pulling the trailer with  the big wheel of orange cable driving somewhere else. And they opened the 4 parking spaces again, but left the cones at the front of them, as if they might return when it's no longer raining.

Wrong again...the pumping thing was there in the rain later on Thursday afternoon.

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FYI, the white steam is just from the loud whistle...the engine itself puts out steady black smoke. I wiped a lot of soot off the window tracks the other day, when they first were wet from rain. So now I'm closing the windows when tourist trains go by 6 times a day, up and back to Silverton CO.

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And my friend back in Black Mountain NC sent this video of a tree being removed with a huge crane...

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