This morning the Dawn Jogger altered her route. Instead of going a bit south, she went a bit north. And nothing was what she remembered. It’s not that she didn’t know her grade school was being rebuilt, but she hadn’t really understood fully how immense it was going to be – or how it was being built practically in the backyards of her friends who lived on the west side of Hillview Drive.

So maybe it shouldn’t have been a big surprise that one of the homes nearest the new school, that also was the last home sold by an original owner, had been enveloped by the ominous green fence. She can only wonder – can the new home be higher than the new school…