Deck: Before and After

Remember Glen's horrible incident from last fall?

The one where he lived through his own Wile E Coyote episode when he stepped on a loose board on the deck and it flipped up, smacking him in the face, and required 7 stitches to fix.

Well, Glen is pleased to announce that the offending board is not only gone, but was recently chopped to a pile of rubble along with the rest of the crumbling deck.

We went from boards that were weathered, loose, and discolored...

to beautiful, smooth, and strong.



The old deck from a distance....


and the NEW DECK!!!!


Styling it after our neighbor's deck we added the pergola into the corner to be our little garden paradise...

We hung flowers and bird feeders....

and put in a birdbath...


It hasn't been there long, but already our deck and little pergola garden have brought us little spots of happiness into our day.   I love peeking out the window when I cook and we all love to arrange our chairs during mealtimes to be able to see the bright and cheerful colors of the flowers and to admire the new birds it seems to be attracting.  We keep our bird id book on the table with us  and after a week  we've already seen three new species that we'd never seen before (rose breasted grosbeak, common flicker, and we think a yellow-bellied sapsucker).

Oh, and it's also nice to be able to walk on the deck again without fearing that someone might end up in the emergency room again.

  Now we've got that big item off our to-do list....

only 19,353,391 more to go.