Today we continued this summer's epic saga of bridge rebuilding. Or more precisely, shoveling limestone road base to finish the abutment on the barn side of the newly reconstructed bridge. Other people will refer to this as "Working on Your Abs". Our tool of choice is a shovel given to us around 14.5ish years ago at our "couples" wedding shower. The Best Man attched a note saying that it might be useful for digging graves. He was right. But mostly, we use it to shovel thousands of pounds of bulky HEAVY limestone. Since we wore the point off some years ago, a new spade has been employed for planting escapades. Another shower gift still in use is the Blue Wheelbarrow. Repainted once, then rebuilt with new handles when we cracked one on the first major limestone moving project (shed floor at Prescott House). It moves plants, mulch, manure, and lately has also been a rain gauge. Unfortunately the water pressure here blew all four of the hoses (11years used at a gentler property) from the shower stash, and forced us to buy a giant 500' roll of industrial 200 psi rated agriculture hose from Temco, Ag supplier to the stars. That was cheaper than plumbing the pasture water troughs by a longshot.
