It's Friday People!

Well It's Friday.  Five Question Friday!!  It's Follow me Friday also.



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1. Take your pick...date night, girls night out, or night out alone?

Oh I can't just decide right now...it depends on my mood.  If I were to decide tonight I would spend the night alone..napping.  Sinuses play a huge part in that decision. 

Gah I'm in such a bad mood today...

2. Can you touch your nose with your tongue?

Nope, and I'm not even going to try.  I just know I can't.  I'm resisting the urge to try while sitting at my desk at work.  Resisting the Urge.  resisting.  Crap...no still can't do it. 
3. What is your favorite flower and why?
I don't really care to talk about flowers right now.  My sinuses can't handle the word flower.
4. If you could go back in time, what advice would you give yourself?
Spend more time with your family.

5. If you won the lottery, what is the very first thing you would do?
Well It depends on how big of a jack pot I hit.  
Joke:
A man asked his wife, "If I won the lottery and promised to give you half would you give me a divorce?"   She replied, "Of Course!!!!"   He replied,  "Good, give me my divorce because I just won 6 bucks!" 
 
ha..ha..  Ok so maybe it's not a funny joke but I would have to win a huge jack pot to do anything worth talking about.  Like going on vacation....to Tahiti. 
 

Biride and Banjo and I went for a walk around Downtown and then took a walk down to the river to visit the old bridge.  It's shown for a split second in the movie SlingBlade.  It was a spooky bridge but I got some good shots.  OH and you can look at my last blog post to read more about my weird obsession with old bridges...

Above is a railroad bridge right next to the old bridge. 

The old bridge is in the photo below.

The railroad bridge.

Have a great weekend!  I'm off to see my Youngest Sister Graduate High School!!

Bridges

It is truly amazing what you can find on the internet.....

The movie Slingblade staring Arkansas native Billy Bob Thorton was filmed here in Benton, where I live.  A little while back the newspaper here did a write up on the old Saline River bridge, a rickey old bridge that was featured in a scene in the movie.  The city was trying to restore the  bridge but in my opinion its way past repair.

I'm a huge fan of history and I love seeing history.  I took the Chocolates down town for a walk around the downtown square after work today and decided I would try to find the bridge and take some photos. 

After a few wrong turns we found the bridge and walked down to the river.  There were a lot of people down there fishing, we also saw another chocolate lab who made friends with Banjo.  ha!  I got some good photos of the bridge too.   You can see there on my 365 page.    

I got home and thought I'd look up some stuff on the internet about the bridge.   I found it was built in 1899 and quit being used in the 70's.  Anyway, finding that information led me to find a lot of neat info about the bridge on our farm!!  I was so suprised at how beautiful that massive concrete bridge used to be.  It makes me sad that they tore down a beautiful historical bridge and built this big ugly concrete bridge.  Yeah it's safer and it will last longer but it's plain and ugly...why couldn't they have built it back as pretty as it used to be??

ok here it is now...i've browsed all my photos and this is the only photo I have of the bridge....  can you kind of see it there behind the barn? or kind of see it in the tree line??     It's just a regular old bridge.  I should go out and take a photo of it to show you but I'm too lazy...maybe I'll do it later  :) or not.

Well anyway Look at these photos i found online...this is what it used to look like back before it was rebuilt in the 80's!!!
Isn't it beautiful?!

Oh This makes me sad!  Why tear down such a beautiful structure and build such an eye sore??  why not rebuild something just as beautiful? 

Ugh, I hate change.