Dock

When we bought our lot it came with a dock that was rusty and had laid in the dirt for 30 years. Needless to say that dock crumbled as we picked up the rotten old boards to see if it could be salvaged, it could not. Then after becoming friends with our neighbor, she to had an old dock in better shape that had not been in the water for years. We decided that if we put sealer on it and put it in the water we would all enjoy it. So, for the past two years we have put that dock down the middle of the property line and...
we have enjoyed fishing off it.
We have sat on it and chatted about our day.
We have tied up our paddle boat and fishing boat on it sturdy steel posts.
We have lit fireworks off it on Fourth of July.
We have jumped off it and swam to the floaty.
We have walked over those boards over and over again.
Then yesterday I was walking out on the dock to see the sunset when creak, crack, clunk. I fell through. I sat there as my husband who saw it all unfold came to my side. Nope I didn't break anything. I just skinned up my leg and was bruised. Actually I felt lucky as I didn't fall in the water.
The next day we went and bought a new board so we can all continue to walk down that dock and enjoy all the fun it brings us at the cottage... at the lake!