I propose a charity auction. We can auction off the dust bag or casters from my accessory kit to buy a shave and a haircut for Thom!
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jethro.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and annoys the pig. --Heinlein
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That bridge is AWESOME!!! God, I miss the East coast sometimes! We don't have very many things like that in California. Did you just restore it? Or did you just build it? Either way, it looks very cool.
"Life is like a box of chocolates... You never know what you're gonna get." Forrest Gump
\"Life is like a box of chocolates... You never know what you\'re gonna get.\" Forrest Gump
That bridge is AWESOME!!! God, I miss the East coast sometimes! We don't have very many things like that in California. Did you just restore it? Or did you just build it? Either way, it looks very cool.
"Life is like a box of chocolates... You never know what you're gonna get." Forrest Gump
Sorry, just trying to be humorous. I wasn't involved in it, just grew up in the area. I had moved away years before the arsonist torched it.
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jethro.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and annoys the pig. --Heinlein
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jethro.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and annoys the pig. --Heinlein
That is great! I am sure it is was hard to justify the cost of the covered bridge, but I am glad they did.
When I was growing up in the 1970's, the county I lived in had 7 bridges in use. I was able to ride my bike across all of them as a kid. By the time I graduated from high school, one had been successfully torched after two miscues, and another bridge was moved to a park. The bridge in my original post was in use up to the late 1980's, it is now in a nice little park for everyone to enjoy, and be amazed at what can be done with a "few" sticks of wood.
quote:Originally posted by Thalermade
When I was growing up in the 1970's, the county I lived in had 7 bridges in use. I was able to ride my bike across all of them as a kid.
Bridges? Did someone say BRIDGES!?
I was born in Portland--a city with eleven major bridges, and the state of Oregon has the largest concentration of covered bridges west of, well, the East, I guess (check out the links above for leads).
My adopted hometown here in Japan has Four Bridges (above) through its center--including one that still carries bullet wounds from straffing by U.S. pilots in WWII--and probably about 30 or more other bridges across the innumerable gorges and defiles defining this mountainous region.
Ah, bridges, "Gotta love 'em!"
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