This is not good customer service

Dear Public Utilities:

In what world is it acceptable for you to bang on my front door for five minutes at twenty of seven in the morning, waking my entire family, in order to ask us to move our vehicles? It's not an emergency. You're apparently here to work for the day, unannounced. It was bad enough when you poked holes in our street a week or so ago and then left (that was also unannounced, but mid-day).

And now you're going to turn the water off?

I was so freakin' livid I left a message with the person who runs the entire water & gas department. I was so freakin' just woken up that I left the wrong address, but at least I was only off by one number. My neighbors would probably be miffed, too, if they weren't morning people.

Do not bring heavy equipment onto my street with NO warning (no flyers, no mail, nothing) and expect us to welcome you with open arms.

No love,
krasota

ETA:
PS: It's now after 8am and your workers are STILL NOT WORKING. Instead, they're all scratching their heads around the backhoe, trying to figure out how to turn it on and move it across the street. I suppose that counts as working, but was it really that important to wake us up half an hour ago?

PPS: And now, quarter past 8 . . . all of you save one have LEFT. The one remaining worker is sitting in the idling backhoe, reading a paper. My tax dollars are not happy.

Soup with things and curry

I just made a yummy soup. I think I'll call it Fall Harvest Soup, because I can. Or maybe "hard waxy soup" or "curried things that grow on, above, and under the ground soup"

Anyhow, it's pretty easy.

Heat some oil in a saucepan. Toss in a chopped onion, a generous forkful of minced ginger, and some minced garlic. When the onion is soft-ish, start tossing in curry powder. It takes a tablespoon or two of a good curry powder.

Add a thing of chicken or veggie stock. I had a frozen container of homemade chicken stock, probably 20oz. When that's melted, add the innards of a roasted delicata squash and a roasted garnet yam. You know, the stuff you had the husband roast the night before while you were surfing MDC while the urchin slept. Season with some salt and pepper at this point. It won't need much, but put a little in.

After awhile, maybe 15 minutes, remember that there's a honeycrisp apple in the fridge. Core and peel it, toss it in.

When the apple is soft, puree the soup in batches. Pour it all back into the saucepan. Add 1/4-1/2 cup light coconut milk, just enough to thin the puree.

Enjoy. Would probably be good with some fresh methi leaves, if one remembered to buy them over the weekend, which one most likely did not. Also good with cashew bits or brown rice.