The Old Folks Home

[dsqard]

Beer can great pictures of the covered bridge. Love that east coast stuff! No covered bridges west of the Mississippi that I know of.

 

[Beer can]

The wife does not like bridges especially super long ones. We have a couple old metal ones with metal grate decking, makes your tires wirrr when you go over, wife hates them so I go slooow, Lol.

 

[ronott1]

Beer can great pictures of the covered bridge. Love that east coast stuff! No covered bridges west of the Mississippi that I know of.

There is one by Chico California. It is the Honey Run Covered Bridge:



http://www.honeyruncoveredbridge.com/

 

[Alaskan]

oooh! pretty, pretty!

 

[ronott1]

oooh! pretty, pretty!

We visited that bridge back in about 1967. You could drive over it then but now it is a park. People use it for weddings.

 

[dsqard]

Beer can I have to admit the bridge near Newport RI is like that and I didn't like driving over it either. I actually had a nightmare that part of the bridge was gone and we didn't see it in time and went into the ocean. It was one of those dreams when you wake up shaking because it feels so real. shudders

 

[Alaskan]

I had one of those kind of dreams last night...

It was super vivid that I thought it was real until after I woke up


In the dream I woke up and opened the shades and looked out at the lawn and saw freshly fallen snow. -insert terrified smiley here-



don't worry, it was cold last night, there was ice on the chicken waterers this morning, but no snow.

 

[Bunnylady]

Bridges around here are often pretty long, and they build 'em high, too, to accommodate boat traffic. I have a thing about heights anyway, but I really, really don't like bridges. I knew this curvaceous charmer from my childhood:




This delightful pair used to stand near Charleston, SC. I got to drive over them going to Savannah, Ga to visit family. Major white-knuckle experience:


This may be the most famous "bridge" in North Carolina - the Linn Cove Viaduct on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Riding it on a bicycle is an experience that I will never forget:


(not my pictures)

Excuse me now. I need to go breathe into a paper bag to stop hyperventilating . . . . .

 

[perchie.girl]

I've always wondered about those covered bridges, what's the point of them? Is it to stop the woodwork from becoming damaged by rain? We don't have that kind of bridges here, most old bridges are built out of stone.

On showgirls and turkens, I think they look a bit weird... but probably easier to pluck. How do those feathers come off? Processing four roosters yesterday reminded me of what a pain plucking can be...

I alwyas covered bridges were originally built in horse and buggy days.... If the horse is going to spook they can only go forward.... But the truth is it was to protect the wood. without a cover the would exposed to the elements would last maybe 10 years. Covered it increases the life expectancy ten times that.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Oooh for you quilters out there:

http://cellar.org/iotd.php?threadid=30831


deb