Greetings everyone! I am finally back from a quick trip out to North Carolina. Linda wanted to fill up on new waterfall pictures and I was hoping to get some new bird pictures. That, and to support a state that understands the stick figure with a skirt is the girls bathroom and the skinny stick figure, well that is for the boys. It was touch and go there for a bit since the news outlets were hyping up the hurricane potential to get everyone worked up. This gave them the excuse to pull all their pretty hurricane rotation maps out of the mothballs they’ve been stored in for the past 10 years. Storm passed, it drop some rain and toppled some picnic tables, but the Smokies looked untouched. I was able to get a few posts out on the road, but most of the time was spent prepping a bunch of future posts. As of now, I have close to 4 months of blog fodder patiently waiting to be dumped like another batch of crooked Hillary emails. I was able to get a good run in today, so figured it was a good time take a break and get a short post out of the way… and by short I mean 20 feet.
That happens to be the distance of the latest bridge building effort on the lot. It seems like every year around October I am busting out the hammers and drills in order to fix an existing bridge or make a brand new one. This year it was a replacement bridge thanks to the destructive tendencies of my run-off stream. When I bought the property over 10 years ago, we had a one foot trench that water coming off our hills would collect in and slowly make their way to the larger stream on the property that Serenity crosses (link here), By last year, that little trench had widened to about 6 feet. That prompted an 8 foot bridge project last year at this time – note, this usually becomes a problem around Haunted Trail time since I need to get the ATV down there with the decorations. I remember putting that thing together in the dead of night by the car lights. With the stream now at 8 feet, last year’s bridge was unsafe to cross. Crap, another bridge build and I already had enough to do to get ready for the party. Luckily, I already had the 6x6x10’s above so that saved me some time. As you can see, I had to put those end to end. I used a post coupler to join them and then put planks across the joint to stiffen it up. Those planks were shot with 16 penny nails – going nowhere!
Hit the jump to read more about the build
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