9-19-09 supporting the balcony

Ever since we bought our little mountain house Don has wanted to reinforce the supports for the balcony. As time went on, he came to feel that the balcony should not be asked to bear weight so we stopped going out on it. Don's been shoring up the dirt at the base of it to keep it from tumbling down the mountainside and then he began digging a hole for an added post. Saturday he showed me what he'd managed to do for temporary support and then I helped (a little) dig the hole for the new post. Don wants to dig it another 3 or so feet deeper. We'll do that on our next trip.

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