I had a new boardwalk built so my wife can use it too
I had the boardwalk between the house and the summer cottage replaced, but with twist - literally: both ends of the boardwalk now gently rise up and meet the house's backdoor and the cottage's front porch level, so there are no steps anywhere. Also, it's wider than regular, commercial boardwalks. You could say it's a boardwalk with accessibility in mind.
My wife who has a disability can now easily go to the cottage and spend some time enjoying the lake and listening to music there without any help.
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I fear this "dull men's club" branding is going to do to the word "dull" something very similar to what the "liminal spaces" branding did to the word "liminal" or what meme communities did to the word "meme." Your boardwalk is awesome.
Sorry... I figured a boardwalk wasn't exactly the most exciting thing in the world 🙂
On the other hand, I'm concerned about the use of the word "club" when you haven't invited us all over for a swim.
But we can keep being loose with the term men … yeah? Cuz best I can do is dude.
Turning a janky old boardwalk into a smooth, gently sloped ramp for accessibility may not be exciting but it is a Good Thing.
It ain't. But we love it LOL
It’s for things other people find dull. We are here because we don’t.
I’m jealous you have two houses and I have a jar of pickled eggs.
We only have one house 🙂 The second building is a summer cottage - with a sauna but no running water and no toilets, and it's not really livable in the winter. This is quite typical here in the north.
What's more unusual is that it is rather large: that's because the family who owned this place before us first built the cottage to spend the summer holidays when they lived far away (so it has bedrooms and a living room to stay in it for a week or two), then they moved here and built the main house on the same plot of land.
We got lucky, we got this place for very cheap.
Oh what you’re not going to congratulate me on my jar of pickled eggs?
Congratulations on your picked eggs. What colour are they?
Most of them are white but one is dark brown.
That one is extra pickled
lol
Now I'm kind of jealous that you have a jar of pickled eggs! I only have some sauerkraut...
I’ll trade you half a jar of pickled eggs for a half jar of sauerkraut.
I thought him and his wife lived in different houses.
It might not be exciting to the public at large but it’s a fantastic idea. My wife has mobility issues so I approve!
Broadwalk on the incline?
Turtle power!
Speechless, please accept my bow
Won't that get slippery as fuck in rain and snow?
Not rain, no. The wood is new, it's treated and it's slightly corrugated. The old boardwalk's wood was smooth as a baby's bottom after 40 years outside, and slightly covered in moss that would turn slimy in the rain - which is half the reason I replaced it: it tried to kill me once too often 🙂
As for snow, it's not slippery as long as it's dry. Once it's wet and melty, everything is slippery 🙂