The list included any number of things and endeavors including a deer stand on a rock pile, shooting lanes, better knives for butchering, even a power hoist for hanging deer in the machine shed. Someone even advanced a motion to discontinue drinking shots of Jägermeister following a deer kill. Ha-ha. Don't hold your breath.
One of the more practical ideas was the construction of a footbridge to cross Silver Creek close to the eastern property boundary.
Long story short is that the foot bridge happened the following year and has been in continuous use ever since.
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I have to extend a heap of credit to my pal New Guy for engineering and building this infrastructure with the assistance of Mennonite.
To be fair it is constructed of surplus parts. Yup, leftovers.
Lumber retrieved from the barn including rebar and hardware from the machine shed and rocks from the ubiquitous rock piles that are everywhere. DeWalt and hand tools too.
This was August of 2017.
A few days ago the girls and I were exploring that portion of the creek and took a few moments to recommbobulate the bridge which was a wee bit catawampus from the winter ice jams. Easy-peasy.
New Guy reminded me that it was engineered to be removed seasonally.
Note to self. Raise the foot bridge in December.....
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