Detour

I keep forgetting that Old Kennett Road is closed between the two branches of Snuff Mill Road, just into New Castle County, so a new cement culvert for the creek can be installed. The short detour (heading south) takes you on Snuff Mill, then Center Mill and Ashland Clinton School Road, and back to Old Kennett Road.
Old Kennett Road is supposed to reopen this April after the $990,496.03 project is completed, but when I was there on Saturday morning a pelleton of bicyclists seemed to be greatly enjoying the much-reduced traffic.
Speaking of roads in Delaware, southbound Route 7 really took a hit this winter: it seems to be mostly potholes as you're heading toward Pike Creek.
Perhaps you've noticed, not for the first time, that I'm a little on the obsessive side when it comes to directional references. That comes from being a reporter for a lot of years, having to describe on which corner a development was going to be built, or which direction each car in a crash was heading.
You can also blame William A. Nolen, M.D. As a teenager I read "A Surgeon's World," his terrific autobiography about life in Litchfield, Minnesota, and was determined to be more exact about directions after reading the following:
"The flatness leads to one characteristic of the Midwest that constantly confused me when I first moved here. It still does...Everyone gives directions in terms of the compass, because the roads, unlike the twisting roads of New England, run in straight lines."