Visions: Q-tips

At my camp, we have two docks: one is on the left of our property, and one is on the right. These two docks provided a secure swimming space for my siblings and I when we were younger and now for my parent's grandkids. They also trap in the beach sand my dad has had brought in, keeping it from being pushed away by the ebbing waves. The left one, pictured above, prevents the ice in winter and spring from damaging our much nicer main dock. This dock, as a result, gets heavily damaged when the ice starts to shift. It was so badly damaged that my dad had to repair it.
My dad works with fiberglass often, so he used fiberglass rings to add structure to our docks. The fiberglass ring at the very tip of the left dock actually was pushed far to the right by the ice, so rather than push it back my dad added one to the other side and built around it. He spent several days nailing the wood around the rings, making it look rather lovely, then placed some boards at the end to get the look of the dock and sat down for a break.

DAD: *Stares at dock* *looks at it in disbelief* "...my dock... it looks like a Q-tip. I've built a giant Q-tip."

ME: "...well, look at it as a... a huge.... *Slowly* thermometer?"

DAD: *Raises an eyebrow* *looks back at dock* ".... a giant Q-tip...."


~Godspede