If you looked at the photographs in my previous post, you might have noticed, that the roads have posts running down the side of them ...

The posts are put in some time in October and enable us to find the roads, even when they have been obliterated by snow drifts.
Because ours is a private road, we are obliged to put up our own posts.
During the first couple of years that I lived here, my landlord put the posts in.
The last two years he didn't. Well, he's over 80 so perhaps he wasn't well enough, or he just forgot.

The year before last, when I realised that the post weren't going to appear, I put up some plastic bean canes I purchased at the local nursery. They were green and not very easy to see in semi darkness.

Last year I phoned the 'Bauamt' - the people that maintain our roads and public buildings - and asked if it were possible to purchase some of their red, wooden posts.

The guy from the Bauamt told me I could have some of his older posts, some that had been knocked down by cars and consequently shortened. They would be a lot cheaper than new ones. He even came along and put them in for me.
I paid CHF 50,- for them.

In May I took them out, cleaned them and stored them in the barn.
In October my landlord remembered, that he had to put in the posts.
The bottom half of the road (the steepest part) he marked with my bean canes.
The stretch between my house and his house was marked with some old fence posts.
His driveway was marked with my shiny red posts!

I couldn't be bothered to go and inform him, what I thought about him, but I did remove two of my red posts and put them in the most important positions on the steep part of the road!

I hope he misses the edge of his drive now and lands in the meadow!