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Yesterday, a really big truck with a long blue tail coiled on its back came to the park.  Today there are sidewalks for people to stand on.  Sometimes they stand on the dirt instead.

Filling in holes is harder than digging holes.  I think they're planting lamp posts.

Once the big hole was filled in some, men put boards between the handrails so that they look like bleachers. Then the forklift truck picked up some gravel with its diggy part and brought it to the handrails.

When the concrete was almost dry, the yellow dog came with his person to take down the wooden house that the cement was in. Now there are two big cement railings in a deep hole.

On Saturdays, the diggy trucks sleep in.  Then the squirrels can come visit their trees.  There are two trees missing, but that's not so bad.

Yesterday the man with the tripod came, and a cement mixer!  The big yellow truck had to be very careful to make the hole the right size for the cement mixer.

There's a new truck that's orange and medium sized, but it doesn't look like it's doing anything.  Maybe it's a supervisor truck.

Diggy trucks don't mind being wet and muddy.  The big yellow truck likes to nap in the mud puddle under the trees.  It made big piles of dirt by the ramp so that the rain wouldn't wash away the soil.

I finally bothered to look up the plans for the park they're demolishing across the street.  We're going to have a bocce court!

http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/DickermanParkfinalillustrativeplan_0.jpg

I think the lawns with boulders will be terrible to maintain, and I'm not sure the yoga/tai chi area will be more useful to the pushups and lunges crowd than the tennis court, but I'm glad they're ending with less paving than they started with.  Perhaps they learned something from the floods a few years back.