So today was general conference, and we worked all day. I was sad to miss, but we have so much to do. David is watching priesthood session (it's 9:30 pm and dark now), and we are planning on watching the sessions we missed our first weekend in thailand while we recuperate at the hotel. I missed sitting and enjoying being uplifted. Thank goodness we get to sit tomorrow. I tore a muscle in my stomach moving all our food storage last weekend (which goes to show how weak my core is...) and I haven't gotten to spend much time resting since. Luckily I seem to tolerate most movements fine.
Today we put in all our new molding, tore off our front steps, painted, did laundry AND built a deck. In one day.
This morning we got up early, well 8:30 is early for a Saturday if you get up at 5:30am all week! And I went out to take a picture of our back view, before the building got started. The holes were already dug on Thursday. But nothing else was done. By 6:30 pm this evening the view drastically changed:
What a huge difference a few hours, and a few thousand dollars, made!! :) Our 20 by 16 foot deck is all done, except for the crushed stone, which cannot be installed due to the frost laws (it's too cold to haul for residential stone/mulch-- in fact there was light snow this morning on the grass which you can see in the tire tracks in the first picture!). Should be lifted in the next couple weeks. My favorite feature are the lighted stairs, the led lights are dusk/dawn auto lights...they look so pretty in the dark now.
I wish I could claim we did it ourselves, but in the time it took David and I to tear our the porch stairs, put in the molding and caulk it all, two guys from Cedar Works Deck Co whipped this deck out. I don't think they stopped moving for 8.5 hours straight. Pretty cool.
Time for bed.
Looks awesome! Way to go!
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