The sand that kept 亚洲天堂 Lake safe for driving all winter is turning the roads into a dirt show with the thaw we鈥檝e had in town. It took a lot of gravel and sand to keep drivers from launching past stop signs coming down the hill from any number of steep avenue accesses.

Public works did an amazing job this winter with those steep hills, and there鈥檚 not much they can do about the accumulation of dirt until all the snow is gone.

We might as well get used to the dust and dirt because there will be a lot more of that coming this spring when construction finally gets underway at the new hospital, the sawmill, and at the arena.

Spring construction is dirty, filthy, and muddy. Trucks trail long strips of mud behind them as they leave soupy construction sites and workers deal with muddy boots that leave a trail of dry and crumbling mud behind as if their owners needed help finding their way back to work.

It鈥檚 the constant accumulation of little irritants that can make a person crazy at this time of the year.

Having a perpetual layer of mud on your boots and a vehicle interior that seems hopeless to try and keep clean slowly wears you down. You start to sink into the grime and you begin to think it鈥檚 normal.

I remember walking into a cafe or pub after a day of early-season work on a construction site, and maybe the cafe or pub wasn鈥檛 in an area that had a lot of construction around normally.

You鈥檇 get some strange looks. You might wonder why, briefly. Soon you notice that your buddy looks like he just washed his hair in a street puddle after crawling out of a hole. Shortly after that you realize that you don鈥檛 look any more civilized than your buddy.

What鈥檚 a worker to do? He or she is filthy, the site was filthy, the truck is a sandbox, and you can鈥檛 see the pavement for the dirt on the roads.

But that cold beer after work tastes especially good before you鈥檝e had a chance to shower-off the day鈥檚 grime. The grimier you are, the better it tastes, but always drink that cold beer responsibly.

亚洲天堂 Lake is used to people looking like they earn their living the hard way, so a couple hundred extra construction workers around town probably won鈥檛 raise too many eyebrows.

If things seem dirty and dusty now, I don鈥檛 think we鈥檝e seen anything yet. To all the eateries, pubs and other businesses in town, maybe you should start thinking about your floors now, because those boots are just around the corner.

Dirty boots come with the construction that鈥檚 coming to town and there鈥檚 not a thing anybody can do about it. If you take an extra pair of boots to the site, say a pair of mud boots, it just means that you鈥檒l have two pair of muddy boots by the end of the day.

The dirt is inevitable. It鈥檚 just spring in a northern town.