Skip to main content

Sprucing Up


bridge1
This summer, the bridge that I remember as being silver when I was growing up, but that has long been green, was painted red.

Bridge2
My friend Mary lived in that house at the end of the bridge. 

At the other end of town, another bridge crosses the Winooski River.  This one is on a more heavily travelled road and it needed to be widened.  It was quite the engineering feat which involved cutting the metal span in half and pushing the two sides apart, then reattaching them with longer beams.

Bridge3
It might have been cheaper to just tear down the old and build a brand new bridge, but re-using is the Vermont way.  There is a temporary bridge beside the old bridge for the duration of the project.

DSCN2003DSCN2004
The Jericho Town Library has been closed for a badly needed coat of new paint.  That accounts for my ability to finish off a few projects in the last two  weeks.  I have spent quite a lot of time volunteering at this library over the summer.  There was a record-breaking number of check-outs this July.

So there is my inspiration.  I need to get busy with some fall housework.

Comments

  1. Linda ReederAugust 29, 2012 at 2:27 PM

    There is a lot of sprucing up going on in my house right now, which will have to be followed by a lot of cleaning up. We're hoping to have everything back in order by the first of October.

    ReplyDelete
  2. BarbAugust 29, 2012 at 6:06 PM

    When we had a house in Bondville, VT, we frequented the library in a tiny clapboard house. I wonder if it's still in use or if they built a bigger structure? It had such character. Olga - I thought you just finished spring cleaning!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Bobby Dobbins TitleAugust 30, 2012 at 9:45 AM

    I think I'll spruce up my work space. Again.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Grandma KcAugust 30, 2012 at 8:53 PM

    I really enjoy your pictures. Everything is so different from southern California -- love those bridges!

    ReplyDelete
  5. MargaretAugust 30, 2012 at 10:40 PM

    What a sweet-looking library. Everything seems so lovely where you are.

    ReplyDelete
  6. SextantAugust 31, 2012 at 8:47 AM

    Wow! That is amazing how they widened that bridge! I think that is really cool that they preserved the bridge when they widened it. Here in western Pennsylvania, we have had many beautiful old iron bridges that span the Allegheny River in a variety of small towns tore down and replaced with nondescript concrete affairs with as much charm as a jersey barrier. I mourn their loss.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

I appreciate readers' comments so much. You don't even always have to agree with me.

Popular posts from this blog

It's TIme

 It's been a while since I have posted anything and even my reading your posts is falling by the wayside. I am in Florida now. I have a yard where little attention was spent on landscaping for the past years so I am slowly and (somewhat) methodically addressing that. I also volunteer to work at the pollinator garden and the edible garden I helped install at the UU grounds and I took over the volunteer job of cleaning out the overgrown community garden by my neighborhood mailboxes. The neighbor who was doing that got sick and could no longer attend to it. It's a bigger job than I'd thought at first -- not only overgrown with weeds, but the plants that are wanted there are in life and death competition for each others' spaces. And two walks a day, morning and evening, so Levi can keep up with addiction to canine social media and a daily rousing came of stick or ball midday take up another chunk of my time. I have a weekly meditation group that I co-facilitate, and my own ...
10 comments
Read more

New Furniture

 We went shopping for a new couch. I liked this one, the first store we went to. Of course it would be an impulse to buy the first one so we trekked around to other stores -- something we liked more, a better deal? No surprise that we ended up going back to that first store the next day and purchasing that couch for our living room. Also a matching love seat for the den where we watch TV. Because I had replaced my old love seat with two recliners. We couldn't keep three households worth of furniture after all. Well, my recliner was not big enough to accommodate both Levi and me. Poor boy had to watch TV from his bed on the floor. There! This is much better! Spoiled much? The little tail on the floor belongs to his toy squirrel, Buddy. It's like having a toddler with the need to be picking up toys or risk tripping over them. But his very favorite play thing is that bathmat that can be found anywhere but the bathroom floor.
10 comments
Read more

Walking

 I have always been a walker. Now that I have a high energy dog there is no excuse for not getting out there. And the weather is not an interfering factor here. Early morning and early evening are our preferred times so even when it gets hot we should be okay. We can get quite a long walk going around the neighborhood, greeting neighbors out working in their yards or walking their own dogs. But the landscape changes quickly just beyond the confines of the housing developments. It could be described as natural Florida or as sites of future housing developments. I do prefer the first option. And I really enjoy being out in natural areas so I often opt to head to a nature setting. I would have liked to put a picture here. Unfortunately my iPhone has made a unilateral decision. It will no longer be sending my photos to my computer. Why? I have no idea. However, we may be walking along happily enough -- me listening to the birds or trying to identify wildflowers and other plants while L...
10 comments
Read more