Quiet Summer Days?

Those of us who are tied to the traditional school year calendar look forward to the quiet of summer days. However, summer is the time when the city, the colleges, and the schools have time to get work done. This morning on our hour-long walk through the colleges at 7 a.m., Hal and I heard: a jackhammer, a cement-mixer, a leaf blower, a weed whacker, trucks backing up, etc. Sigh.