This has been another week that has brought much change to the house. Frank started the week with tractor repairs--on three of them! Then he started making the deck. It is as long as one side of the house--22 feet--and 10 feet wide. Frank attached the ledger to the house on Monday. On Tuesday he placed the support posts on their cement pads, and put the main frame up. Wednesday he put up the joists. Thursday he attached the rail posts.
Meanwhile, I caught up on this blog, then went over every inch of ground around the house and outward a number of feet with a magnet. I also went around the piles of supplies. I found nails, staples, screws, barbed wire--from an old fence, and sundry other metal pieces. This took parts of 3 days. Friday, both of us worked on attaching the decking itself. Frank cut it. I kept screwing on the boards. When I got too far behind, Frank would stop sawing and help me screw.
Saturday Frank finished the decking, and began attaching the rails to the rail posts. Today he finished the project with attaching the balustrades.
Here is the finished project.
Today I filled our large trailer with wood scraps we had thrown on a pile on the driveway. We need to move the pile because, with the deck, we now have less room to maneuver into the garage.
This was our view south this afternoon. We have now had three days with some rain each day. We really need it. It has been very dry. But guess what? We no longer get water in the house!
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