All Decked Out

Today someone called me a scrounger, I took it as a compliment. My brother in law will actually get most of the "scrounging" credit for this one, and we are grateful. The landscaping plants from our backyard oasis had barely begun to take root when TOWW and I inherited a used deck from a neighbor of my sister (thanks Emily). It seems we are actually unable to sit and enjoy our beautiful backyard for any length of time before another "project" gets invented and the work begins all over again. Although excited at the prospect of having a deck, I was dreading all the work and money I had imagined it would probably entail. Actually, it came together pretty quickly, TOWW had the whole thing designed and printed out before we had a single board in our possession, and other than a box of screws and a can of stain it the entire thing was free. The project consisted of dismantling the "old" deck at the neighbors, loading the entire thing onto a borrowed trailer, hauling it home and reassembling it into TOWW's creative design in our own yard. *******************************Old Deck****************************************************************Framed*********************************
*******************************Boards on********************************
He had it built in two days, and after our prolonged waterfall/river project of the last three years, I was in shock....happy shock. *******************************Sanding*********************************
*******************************Stain*********************************
*****************************Stain again****************************
*******************************Done!*********************************
****************Game of Tag WITHOUT getting a sliver********************
We spent a couple of Saturdays sanding and staining, and the result...well you be the judge. But just in case you knock at the door and I don't answer, come around back, I'll be the scrounger in the lounger, sipping my lemonade, enjoying my beautiful backyard....finally.