Posted on 01/19/2005 9:51:40 AM PST by Mo1
Lucky poochie...wish I were he for that treatment.
I guess the final write up, as she said, is: "You're just EVIL."
Some sis she is, right?
LOL!
Very true.
Better than being a drooling satyr as well.
Tomorrow they may start the pole driving. These guys start at 8:00 in the morning, and shut down at 6:00 in the evening.. They sure are some hard workers, and their work is very precise.
Al made scrumptious tacos for supper.. Yum!
Pole driving.. how far do they have to drive them?
Is it silt and clay there, or is there actually something to rest that dock on?
I hate you guys.
Way to go there. ;-)
I don't know how far down they drive them, but they hold the whole dock up. I will get pics of the job and maybe we can find out how deep they go.
They are thick like telephone poles as you can probably see across the canal. The dock itself is bolted to the wall, and then they set in the big poles down into the bottom.
Evenin, Loddy. How is your MIL?
Okers.
When they replaced the bridge here, they drove steel I-beams down into the ground until they hit the greywhack substrate here.
(Greywhack, that neat silty rock that shatters into a billion sharp little pieces and can be crumbled with your bare hands. AFTER it's shredded your fingers of course.)
The stuff is only 20 foot down, but the creek follows the contours of a deep gouge in the underlying rock.
Hey - I went in to see the doc, and low and behold, there she was to see her doc.
Things are getting better for the both of us.
I hope.
(Go long in Charmin, in the meantime.)
Ohhhhhhhhhh.. that sickness seems to be everywhere.. 'Cept here so far, and thank goodness. ;)
Heal!
I'll check it all out when they start doing it. For your curiosity and mine... ;)
.....Ornery.....
Okers.
Reading through the local history of where I live, the original bridge had been wood, and had wooden pilings.
A "small" flood tore the bridge away and left the pilings.
(One lone piling still remains not far from where the grist mill sat, grist mill also went down the creek in the flood.)
They had a ferry running for awhile, until the bridge was replaced.
Then the bridge was replaced yet again by the WPA in 1936.
The 1936 vintage bridge was the one recently torn up and replaced.
:(
They can't do that on the Gulf coast. There is no rock for 1,000 to 2,000 feet. They just go deep enough for the friction between pile and earth to hold the weight.
SO9
So, which are you...grumpy or ornery...or both? LOL
Luau on Gran's dock, y'all! Who's gonna do the pig?
Gather round gals, this is a quick orienteering for Hudobna, here in our excellent thread.
Here sits one of the freeform chat threads, and it has it's own ambience and feel.
A place to kick back, relax, and laugh.
This thread has had many visitors, and it's 'usual band of suspects', and one will generally comment that there seems to be some strange influence on people venturing into this thread.
Pay that no mind as that is just a rumor.
*chuckle*
I'm not very good at being a tour guide, and indeed it wouldn't be fair to others for me to make the attempt.
Feel free to wander about the thread, ask questions, and enjoy the rumors and speculation abut whether or not I am alive or dark reanimated dead.
(Sorry, had to toss the thread joke in there.)
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