Month: May 2011

Elder’s Mill Covered Bridge

While slowing down a bit getting ready to turn off GA15 to hunt the Tignall Cemetery Cache I spotted a sign on the right hand side of the road that said “Covered Bridge.” So we made a quick turn and headed to the bridge. We both wondered out loud if we might have been here before, because way back in our early years in South Carolina we did chase down some north Georgia covered bridges. When we got to the bridge it didn’t look familiar, so we had either never been here before or had and forgot it.

Elder’s Mill Covered Bridge is a few miles south of Watkinsville, GA in Oconee County. It is a single span town truss bridge that spans Rose Creek. It is 99 feet long and was built in 1897.

The bridge wasn’t very wide and as a precautionary measure the state had erected an arch made of steel I-beams a hundred feet or so off either end. They serve the purpose as those metal basket things at the airline check in counters for your carry on’s, if it fits inside you can take it on board. If your car can fit through the arch it can cross the bridge. Me, being still a little unsure of the cubic volume of space consumed by the Purple Whale, was a little worried passing through the I-beams. We drove across and I made a K-turn to go back over the bridge while Donna jumped out with camera in hand to capture the moment.

2 Much

We got up 2 early for a Sunday morning 2 drive a loop through Georgia today. We found 4 caches and DNF’d 2, but we made the most of that small amount of finds because by the time we were finished a little after 2:30 this afternoon we got to cross off 2 State Parks, 2 Counties and 2 DeLorme Pages of our Georgia Geocaching Challenges.

Stuff

An LOB PSA, there is probably tons of free porn on the net so there is no need to store it on your personal computer where it could be found and turn embarrassing when discovered after your demise. Advice the head of the world’s most feared terrorist organization could have used. Pornography Is Found in Bin Laden Compound Files

On a quasi-related note, Disney Trademarks ‘Seal Team 6.’ How long will it be before Disney lawyers demand that the Navy rename the unit that killed Osama Bin Laden?

Roger Ebert trashes the Thor movie. And in a stupid move by a smart man, he tries to explain himself to the trolls who commented in the original post.

Friday The Thirteenth

In honor of today’s date, when it was time to pay for our weekly groceries at Kroger’s, we had the option of three different very short check out lines and we chose number thirteen.

I’m not going to create a separate page for the mods done to the Sonata like I did for the Miata, because the second and quite possibly last mod for it arrived in the mail from South Korea today. The first was tinting the windows and this one is a home market badge that goes on the right side of the trunk to balance out the Sonata one on the left. It reads F24GDi. The 24 stands for the 2.4 liter engine, I googled to find out that the GDi stands for Gasoline Direct injection, but the F I have no idea about. Four cylinders maybe?

We rode the bus (AKA the tandem) to work today and nary a single black cat crossed our path.

Mmmm…Ham!

Spam most people know as the unwanted commercial comments on their blog, its counterpart is called ham to indicate legitimate comments. At least that is what Akismet, the plugin I use on this blog, calls it. So by corollary any email I get at work that might first appear to be spam may actually turn out to be ham.

Like the one I got yesterday that showed several interesting photos that could be purchased to cover up a dull garage door. Most of the ones in the email were of very large things stuffed into an attached car garage. A quick Google search and it turns out it is legit.

I checked the site and while interesting, most would be too over the top for my suburban neighborhood. There is even an option to make your own custom image. I think might be best bet, most of your neighbors know what the inside of your garage looks like, so you can take a picture of that and everyone will just think I left my garage door up.

Style Your Garage

Started up, went down, back up, back down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 1014

Photo A Day

Because I have nothing to really write about, I present my favorite photo from each of the three days of this last weekend.

We went out for a short walk on the beach at dusk on HHI. This is looking back at the condo complex along the boardwalk from the beach.

We went for a longer walk on the beach Saturday morning and on the way back Donna decided to try out a beach chair in front of the Marriott’s Barony Beach Club.

Sunday’s walk was through the marsh at low tide in Skidaway Island State Park after a geocache. The grass was full of Marsh Periwinkles clinging to their stalks.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 1011

Big Brother

We took the day off from work today to run some errands, one of which was to go get the Sonata’s windows tinted. Because we were dropping it off and coming back later to get it, we had both cars on the move. Breakfast was at DD and as I looked back at the two cars parked in adjoining spots it really affirmed yesterday’s comment on the size of the Miata.

We killed the two hours while the Purple Whale got his sunglasses by doing a little local geocaching and we found 7 of 8.

Started down, went up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 1009