Five months — almost to the day — after we made the first call to our comrades at Fairpoint, we now have utility poles leading to the Dash Landing driveway.

The best part? After 150 days, countless phone calls, begging, pleading, cajoling and a long series of Soviet collective jokes, it took Fairpoint approximately 90 minutes to set the poles.

We’re a LONG way from having electricity, phone or cable, but today was definitely one of progress.