"TIN TIPPY" Docked

(Click on photo for larger image.)

Quiet on the Riverfront ~ Good Friday Photos



Replacement Bridge will be Built Along Side Old

When the new bridge is complete, the old will be torn down. The new will slide into place.





Happy Easter Weekend ~   The Neat Little Bookshop is CLOSED on Good Friday.  Reopening for Saturday, March 30.  We wish you a safe and happy weekend.

Smile for Today ~

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something."
~ Plato (427? - 348?) Greek Philosopher.

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
~ Robert Benchey (1889 - 1945) American humourist, newspaper columnist.

Suggested conversational icebreaker:  "Do you hunt your own truffles or do you hire a pig?"  ~Jean McClatchy

~ The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, Robert Byrne, A Fireside Book, 2006.

Progress on the Bridge ~



Loading the Barge



 

Photos taken Tues., March 26.  (For larger image click on photo.)

Thought for Today ~

"I love the winter, with its imprisonment and its cold, for it compels the prisoner to try new fields and resources.  I love to have the river closed up for a season and a pause put to my boating, to be obliged to get my boat in.  I shall launch it again in the spring with so much more pleasure.  This is an advantage in point of abstinence and moderation compared with the seaside boating, where the boat ever lies on the shore.  I love best to have each thing in its season only, and enjoy doing without it at all other times.  It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.  I find it invariably true, the poorer I am, the richer I am.  What I consider my disadvantage, I consider my advantage."

~ Henry David Thoreau, An American Landscape.  Selected Writings from His Journals, Edited by Robert L. Rothwell.Paragon House, 1991.