A vehicle pulled up on the other side of the bridge this morning and I went out to see if it was a fisherman. A guy was padlocking a traffic counter box to our street sign post, and I pointed out to him that this is a dead-end, private drive, so we don't get a lot of traffic worth counting, particularly coming across the bridge because if we get fishing club members, they don't drive that direction.



He said it's a CDOT (Colo Dept of Transportation) project to do with bridges, and ours was on his list. My friend C. Karen works for CDOT so I emailed her about it, and she said while there IS a counting project underway, it shouldn't be on private land like ours, because CDOT doesn't maintain our road or bridge. People there got riled up about it, she said, and even looked us on via GPS to see if we should be included or not.

We think it's pretty funny to do a 48 hour study of how many times we drive across our bridge - today it was a wheelbarrow, a push lawnmower, a riding mower, and the pickup truck.



This is one of my favorite pictures of the bridge, taken in the fall of 2006. That's Baby Chalek walking across there, but looks like our late cat Buddy.