Diana's
Sculpture and
The Garden Bridge
September 12, 2008
The Sculpture
Diana met an artist who designed a
sculpture for her garden. It looks exactly like the picture. It is made from
tile and mirrors and other cool stuff and really dresses up the front of the
house.
The Garden Bridge
The bricks we put down to cover the hole we dug for the
sewer line repair (Remember?
If not, Click Here for the story.) started falling into the earth
(because I didn't do such a good job filling in the hole).
We had a couple of estimates to fix the problem and they came in around
$7500. I decided to spend $4000 and do it myself by putting a bridge over
the troubled earth. (This was before Sarah Palin and The
Bridge To Nowhere hit the news.)
The bridge came from Joe at
Redwood
Garden Bridge (click for their website). He
talked me through the process and sent three boxes of stuff that I built
into an 11 foot by 4 foot bridge in a single day, just like Rome.
(Or was it that Rome wasn't built in a day? I forget.)
After building it, I had to move it out of position, rip up
the rest of the bricks, build a concrete footing for it to anchor to, then
drag it back and cement it in place. We finally have a walkway that will not
sink into the earth. These photos are of the process:
Once again, there is no copyright notice.
Once again, you have blanket permission to steal whatever you want.
Once again, send me a check with a lot of zeros before the decimal point.
Once again, well, never mind...
