Monday, February 4, 2013

Our shingle road

Marion, your explanation is so far back that I thought I'd post our shingle road just off the end of our laneway.  I love the term.  Gravel somehow has nothing on the word, shingle.  I'll start confusing Canadians now.  How did the term, shingle, come about?  We have gravel pits here, fights over opening them up in our township, other townships, big fight over one in Melancthon Twp. with a Bosten Hedge Fund group just recently and for now, while they still own the land, they've stopped applying for permits to extract the gravel from the ground.  They'll likely wait until the furor dies down and start up again sometime.  They bought up huge tracts of land and said they were going to grow potatoes.  Then, applications for gravel pits began.  Do you have shingle pits in NZ.
Rosey

posted by RoseyP @ 2:41 PM

4 Comments:

At February 5, 2013 at 1:55 PM , Blogger Marion in NZ. said...

Rosey, that's beautiful ! Certainly a "Shingle" road, not a gravel one !!

I'll ask the DH why it is so named. When I first came to NZ I had so many questions to ask about such things that I eventually stopped asking and just accepted what I was told !! Sad but true...

I'll post soon. It's very busy here at the moment.?!?

 
At February 5, 2013 at 5:37 PM , Blogger Marion in NZ. said...

Uuuuuum, that's interesting. He doesn't know either but suggests that it may have something to do with the fineness of the gravel put on the surface of the road. We have gravel pits here and some roads are gravel roads, so that seems a reasonable suggestion to me ! Ours isn't in such good nic as yours though. Lots of pot-holes which are often full of water. The grader man comes when it gets too bad but, as there are only two more properties beyond us on this no- exit road, we are hardly considered high priority by the council !

 
At February 6, 2013 at 9:24 AM , Blogger RoseyP said...

Marion, the word 'nic' I take to mean not as in good shape as our roads here which get washboardy very badly over the year, particularly in spring, summer and fall. Our gravel must not be as fine as yours. We do have something called pea-gravel which is finely cut but normally our road gravel, which my neighbour and himself here have been known to go out and liberate (steal) from the road when the grader goes by one way and leaves a mound in the road waiting for the grader to come back and grade the road the other direction thus smoothing out the mound of dirt and gravel...they then bring it in and fill up the small potholes in our laneways is larger than that...much too long a sentence, badly structured but you get the idea. I can't think of what size to compare our gravel to......say one half inch in diameter or less perhaps. It can't be too large or it will offset the tires running over it and flip it out to the side of the road or laneway. We are on a school route thus the snow is cleared well on the back roads otherwise, as you, being at the end of the shingle road, I understand, should you live here, you would be snowed in much of the time. Good thing you don't have snow on your land where you live or not often I'm sure. I think the word shingle to be much nicer than the word gravel.
Rosey

 
At February 10, 2013 at 4:09 PM , Blogger Doris W. in TN said...

Rosey - what a beautiful autumn scene you posted here! And I'm glad the "shingle road" subject has come up because it reminded me that I must look into a shingles vaccine soon. (ack!)

 

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