Friday, April 24, 2009

A Broken Bridge

One morning, we woke up and found our bridge broken!! (Well... okay, it didn't go exactly like that.) But the point is it happened when no one was on it and the damage wasn't all that serious or disastrous.
One of the supports (see picture below) had broken off and fallen into the creek. So we took all the boards of the top (Dad and Joe did, that is) and pulled all the poles off. We then got all the dirt removed from the edges around the banks and replaced all the poles. (Not serious damage, you said?!) Thankfully, we're almost done now... We'll be putting the boards back on top again soon!

The broken support.

Nice new poles!

Is it level?

Joe at work.

2 comments:

David G. and Family said...

Wow, the supports broke. That sounds like our tree in San Diego.

Our tree's roots were not deep and when it rained the tree pulled out of the ground and fell.

Was this bridge part of your drive way?

DJ

Anonymous said...

Yep!! It was part of the driveway... but thankfully we have two driveways so we weren't totally stuck!