As we reported yesterday, construction crews have returned to our property, which evidently they need to stage some pipe to replace a damaged section of pipe on properties adjacent to ours. No one from Enbridge bothered to let us know that they’d be here tearing up the land they carefully restored about a month ago. In fact, when we asked our new land agent yesterday, right before crews arrived, if any work would be taking place on our property, he didn’t know. You see, Enbridge (as we’ve long known) doesn’t even communicate well with its own people.

All of this, of course, is dismaying– and for lots of reasons. In addition to the complete lack of regard for landowners like us, here’s cause for dismay: you might recall the lovely surprise we discovered a couple of months ago once all the equipment left our property. Some irises miraculously survived the ordeal. Here they are just last month, growing and thriving:

And here they are this morning–er, well, um,  you can’t see them because they are now crushed underneath that large piece of equipment.

You might also recall all the new topsoil they brought in for us after spoiling ours by carelessly dumping subsoil on top of it. This morning, we’ve been watching them bulldoze it all up. Like this:

Oh, and that piece of pipe there? Evidently, that’s the damaged section they removed. We’re not sure why it was necessary to set it on our land.