Post #494411 by abstractiki on Tue, Nov 17, 2009 9:34 PM

I think I wrote about it in the posted story but when i left that morning for the Islander I hadn't figured it all out, I just grabbed the Lei. Right before I left the building I tore a piece of Bamboo off the Pit Bar overhang, I went outside and with that new fence up I felt like a sitting duck. I kept thinking the sheriff was going to be pulling up any minute and I was going to have to explain what a grown man was doing inside a condemned chicken restaurant taking a piece of 50 year old bamboo. This second trip had a lot more "fear factor" for me thanks to that new fence. Any way I quickly looked around realized there was no way I was going to be able to climb to the top outrigger beam of the A-Frame. I saw an old 5-Gallon bucket full of sand or dirt nearby. I drug it under the lower outrigger beam and stood in the dirt in the bucket (i almost fell off several times). I put the Lei on the end of the Bamboo, reached up and managed to drape it around the beam, I pushed it back as far as I could so It wouldn't come off. I then drug the bucket back to where I found it. To cover my tracks i guess I'm not really sure why I did this.

Unfortunately Just last Friday I noticed that the Lei was gone. The wind may have blown it loose and it may be laying on the ground. I couldn't think of a way to secure it any better under the circumstances. I was driving on 99 at the time so i didn't get a good look. It was kind a cool tho driving by, looking at it hanging there while it was up.