"Gird up your loins" - a photo essay of a trucking problem for Arta's birthday

Arta tromping around the woods

May 8th arrived.  Arta's birthday.  She would have been 86.   I spent the early part of the morning looking at old photos of Arta, and wondering what she would have been doing on her birthday if she were still with us.  

I suspected it would have been something to meet the deep curiosity that was always a part of her life. 

And then, photos from Moiya and Janet started coming in from out at the lake:  an 18-wheeler truck loaded up with steel girders was stuck at the '5 corners' part of the road at the lake, just above Arta's place, and right into the lovely stream with all the skunk cabbages. 

Steel girders!?   All I could think of was the number of times when, faced with a difficult problem in life, Arta would say, "Well, gird up your loins!"  :-).  

Gotta say.... confronted with the problem of so many girders, I had a whole new set of questions about the protection these particular 'girds' had to offer.  And as Richard commented, "Somebody's in trouble...."

And how the heck were folks going to get THIS particular blockage unblocked?  As Moiya pointed out, it was customer appreciation day at Askews, but now there was not a way for her to get out the road so she could pick up some discount-priced Hawkin's Cheesies (would this denial of access to snack foods count as 'damages' for the purposes of a law suit?!) 

So many questions!  We all agreed that if Arta were there, she would be setting up a lawn chair so she could follow her curiosity as to how folks were going to muddle their way through this puzzle. 

People 'in charge' were on site trying to problem-solve in no time.  Apparently there is a towing company in town with the right kind of truck for the job (which is apparently worth over a million dollars), but the owner was not comfortable with the idea of trying to bring it in via the old east road.  No surprise there.   Two stuck trucks would be worse than one stuck truck. 

[LATER...]

Anita replied with another block of photos she took (below).  She said:

"The incident happened somewhere between 10:30 and 11:00am, and it was resolved around 7pm.  It was interesting to see the crane lift the trailer onto the road and then another tow truck pull it over.  Doral said this was better than a movie!"

So I guess all the lake folks are good now on driving in for the Hawkins cheesies.   The challenge was resolved, and those girders are off to do their work in the world.   Happy Birthday Arta!