031310 Winter is over, spring has sprung, summer is right around the corner

031310 Winter is over, spring has sprung, summer is right around the corner

Winter (uh, the wet season) is over and spring has sprung. The best
time to be in Iraq is the spring and fall. But in temperate regions
of the earth there really is only a wet season (winter) and a dry
season (summer). Only recently have I had to start running the AC at
night and I safely pack away my light
jacket until this coming October or so. The weather is pretty nice
right now but soon enough it'll get dang hot.
Two of the pics show the new sidewalks (aka Iraq public works
projects). They were put in by an Iraq company and are about a foot
thick (I don't know why). After the sidewalks are poured and hard,
the Iraqis come back and using a diamond saw, cut lines across the
sidewalk every 5' or so. This is so that when the slab cracks (which
it eventually will do) that it will crack along that line. But they
could draw the same line across the concrete while it is still wet and
save a lot of time and energy and efforts. But that is not the Iraqi
way....
Alson in one of the pics is you can see the American flay painted on a
t-wall. That is the post office. The other pic is of me in front of
where I work.
We still get attacked about 2-3 times a week but they're still damn
lousey shots. Pretty damn exciting huh?

R/Chris