Picture of the day:
How was this material made and lifted in 432 BC?
Today’s stuff:
The other day 'MA' commented on a ‘home place’, remembering a ‘swinging Bridge’. There is a swinging bridge in our past also. Kat and Dick (Sis & BIL) had a place in the NC mountains. An Old cabin that the extended family used and enjoyed. There was a swinging bridge across the mountain stream. It was actually installed & maintained by NC State DOT for years. It was a walking bridge.
All the kids loved it. One day Jack Jr. was on the bridge and screamed loudly after being stung by a hornet. Sherry (a young lady then) went bounding across the bridge, unknowingly stirring a huge hornet’s nest underneath. That was long before she wore pants. Hornets swarmed under her dress mixed in the slips and dress (modesty went to the wind, imma tell you). At least 14 made it to her legs and she suffered some terrible stings.
However, we still used the bridge and enjoyed it for many more years (with the nest gone, of course) The State finally took the bridge down.
more..
Do you ever want more? I love Butter-pecan Ice Cream. MOST of the time, when it is finished no matter how BIG the bowl was, I want just a little more.
I misplaced a lot of things in my childhood. My daddy used to tell me, “You would lose your head it it wasn’t screwed on to your neck!”
Filled the car Monday, gas cost: $3.57 per gallon.
I was over at ‘Spare Parts and Pics’. Peter went out to the Carlyle mine. Even crazy enough to walk down into one of the shafts. ‘BUT’ he mentioned all the **concrete used to make the mine workable in such a rough area. That was in the early 1900s, The mine peaked in my birth year 1939.
So I started down a rabbit trail. In my mind going back to the Pyramids. How did they do that in 2600 BC. I walked the Parthenon in Athens in 1957 & 1970, How did they do that in 432 BC?
So now I am looking in on the Aztecs on this side of the world. How did they do that in 1050 AD?
Sorry, when I get on a rabbit trail, I get lost..
And click-bait did not sent me this time. LOL
Take care...
Nite Shipslog
** Concrete: I learned that the Carlyle concrete was probably some of the first ‘Gunite’ or ‘Shotcrete’ used. Gunite is still used today but not the same methods. It was probably hauled out in bags as powder and forced into water by pressure.
Where there is a will there is a way, THEY SAY!
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5 comments:
I like walking on swinging bridges.
My moms favorite ice cream was butter pecan.
Honestly, I just bought butter pecan for Rick!
Poor Sherry - 14 stings at the same time - truly it was a miracle she didn't die.
I like swinging bridges too.
Back then they had slaves who built those. They were treated inhumanly and had to work to move ever stone and rock. I just cannot imagine being treated like that. Oh my on all those stings, That must have hurt terribly. I think the gas company maintained the bridge at my grandparents farm, they had to monitor the pipeline that ran up the hill Never had hornets there and I spent many hours fishing from that bridge..
OH, that swinging bridge story with the hornets has me quaking in my shoes. First, just going across a swinging bridge is a bit daunting by itself, and then to have a swarm of bees come up and start stinging you in very tender places, oh my! The agony! I'm glad Sherry survived that! I was hoping you would have a picture of the little cabin you stayed in. I'd love to see that. And yes, I do wonder how they built all those structures back in the day so long ago. There are many "wonders of the world" that have me baffled. Someday maybe we'll find out when we get to heaven...all these "secrets" of the world that with all of our high fallutin' knowledge and even AI, we can't figure out how they did those things thousands of years ago. It's crazy. I look forward to learning about these things someday. Interesting rabbit holes today. Thanks.
Lots of reasons to put on my "thinking cap"! All the stuff we take for granted, but never stopped to wonder "how."
Mr. God was sure looking after Sherry on that bridge. My goodness, it's a wonder she didn't go into shock.
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