If you’re like me and live near Saguaro Boulevard and have to travel it every day, then I hope you are a patient person.

You never know which lane of traffic you will be traveling in from day to day.

I was wondering how many of those blinking barricade signs have been lost since work began on the multi-million dollar reconstruction of the well-traveled roadway.

Every day on my way home from the office I see another one or two smashed and flattened to the ground. One recent Thursday, there were six flattened when someone obviously mis-judged the left turn onto Saguaro from Shea.

When I arrived home, I jokingly accused Diane of being the one who knocked them down.

“Did you take the RV out today?” I asked.

“No, why?” she replied.

When I told her what had happened, she gave me the “That’s not funny, no dinner for you” look.

My reference was to a time when she was driving our RV through a lot of road construction entering into Sedona. She knocked down two or three of the barricades along the roadway.

She’s actually a very good driver and handles the RV very well. It was just one of those moments that I had to make light of.

The next morning, I was following a large delivery truck when it knocked down another barricade. A deputy directing traffic flagged him down and told him to stop. A small door was open on the side of his truck and that’s what knocked over the barricade.

But, be patient with this road construction. It will all be worth it when it is completed. Did you see all the potholes that suddenly appeared on Saguaro during that most recent day-long rain we had a few weeks ago? You could see how the road is falling apart.

Speaking of potholes, here’s a bit of information I learned last week. New York City’s Streets Department filled 487,713 potholes last year. That’s a lot of asphalt to patch!

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I went to the San Francisco Giants-San Diego Padres game on Saturday with my friend and former employee, Charlie Vascellaro. We had a good time reminiscing about early-day Fountain Hills and baseball.

He spoke on the early days of the Cactus League at the Scottsdale Library that morning as part of the “Baseball City” special event the City of Scottsdale held on the weekend.

Charlie is a freelance writer with stories in a number of publications. He has the lead story in the Giants’ Spring Training program.

Make sure you read his overview of the Cactus League in this month’s Let’s Go.

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Joan and Steve Brown, lovingly known by their friends as “the Brits,” are going back home Friday.

They have been coming to Fountain Hills each winter since buying a home here 17 years ago. Their other home is in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, England. They have owned and operated a popular fish and chips business in the coastal town for 33 years.

They are familiar faces in many of the local restaurants.

Steve is a terrific cook and usually has some dinner parties during their stay here each year. Diane and I feel fortunate to have made their guest list the last several years. His curry creations, paella and fish dishes, are “to die for,” Diane says. I’ll second that.

They plan to return in October.