Sidewalk Christmas Present

Speaking of ecologically conscious celebrations, holiday procrastination, thank you notes:

 

Wishing a #MerryChristmas to all who celebrate. May the season bring peace and joy throughout the whole world.

And thank you #DigitalInclusion for capacity to decorate without murdering a pine tree pic.twitter.com/BDprCljj0z

— Dorene Cornwell (@DoreneFC) December 25, 2023

All I wanted for Christmas was finished SIDEWALK REPAIR!

Recently RantWoman set out on a short walk to her neighborhood pharmacy. YES, so far, THANK HEAVEN there still IS a neighborhood pharmacy though RantWoman finds empty shelves on her most recent visit worrisome.

But instead, LOOK!

Look Ma.
No swimming pool sized puddles.
No horrifying tree root disruptions!
Wait, is this the gravel before picture?

But never mind. RantWoman MUST offer appreciation for NEW SIDEWALK. RantWoman on a previous walk had to make her way through a gravel path obviously indicating sidewalk repair in progress! The day RantWoman took these pictures RantWoman was dreading the need either to execute some weird find a traffic signal and backtrack routing or deal with fast food parking lot to get somewhere in the vicinity of a traffic signal and the needed Rainier Ave. street crossing.

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Dear Readers. Please bear with RantWoman while RantWoman figures out a new browser. RantWoman means for this post to include in addition to exclamations of great appreciation, tribute to JMB aka Mr. Accessible Restrooms for RELENTLESS advocacy about the need to improve this patch of sidewalk. RantWoman also needs to honor the fact that Mr. Accessible Restrooms is no long around to enjoy it.

RantWoman realizes it is a TEENY bit weird to include tributes to a key figure in what es basically a thank you letter for a small but critical piece of infrastructure.

However, Mr. Accessible Restrooms deserved to be remembered in all the dimensions of memorability.

With that in mind, a few old posts in memoriam.

Just in time for next week's Great Washington Shakeout

An Elegy with COVID and Heat Dome

Keys, The Chief Morale Officer, Restrooms

Appreciation, Preparedness, Accessible Restrooms

The Bus, restrooms, and memorable moments