That's right, folks...we finished the deck. It's only been on our "list" since we moved in two years ago. Things sure do get in the way, kids getting sick, unexpected trips, and lack of motivation (that's the big one!). But today we crossed off "deck" and earlier this week we crossed off "fascia boards". As I posted earlier in Looks Like $$$, we found that the damage was beyond our expectation and consequently the repair was beyond our ability. So we had that fixed by professionals, who did it in in 1/10th the time and didn't swear once (more that I could have said for D).
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| Now I really need to do something about the sickly landscaping. |
After fighting the weather for so long, it was nice to get the deck finished, even if today was the hottest day of the year so far. But again it felt good to sweat...sweat was dripping off my nose, which makes it tricky when you are staining the floorboards of the deck. It was nice to work with D, we had a lot of time to talk. We work well together and even did a little laughing when he dropped a huge drip of stain on me (yeah...real funny wise guy!) We decided that the reason it had taken us so long to tackle this task was lack of confidence. It seemed like such a big job, one that we'd never done before. Now that it's done, it seems silly that we were nervous, it was pretty easy after all...just labor intensive.
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I'm hoping that this recent success will improve our confidence and motivate us to tackle more of the "list"....like "garage storage" and the one I just added today "stack washer and dryer". Those have D written all over them. But I think I'll give him a few days before I start drawing up plans.
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