The deck before and after pictures

Here are the before and after pictures of our new deck.  I really like the new railing - which Liz designed!!

The Deck Afternoon

The deck is done - now we have to setup everything again. Here is the view from this morning, But Rich showed up with 5 guys!!

The deck at 7AM

The deck at 5PM

The deck from the other direction

Deck Not Finished

So it's Friday.  It has rained every day for a couple of weeks.  It is so foggy, wet and still drizzling. I doubt Rich and his team will finish today. Bummer for the long weekend.

Bob

Taking the Trees Down

So, this project started because we needed to rebuild the deck. Liz and I figured looking at some of the trees leaning towards the house and the deck that about 1 min. after the deck surface was rebuilt one of the trees would fall and destroy the deck.

We asked our contractor for recommendation for a tree guy, “yeah they got a pretty big truck”. A number of these trees were hundred feet tall and I wondered how they would get to the top to cut them down. They arrived at 8:30 in the morning and 8 very large trees and all of the men and the debris were gone by 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

Here are some of the pictures from that day.

That tree was hollow!!!

Attach a HUGE crane and cut it off 

Bob

Always carry a camera!!

I needed to get to Lowe's to finish a project.  So I arrive at opening, 7AM.

I took the long way home, it was still foggy, but it was warming up.  Driving past a small lake there were two Swans and a bunch of babies (cygnets).  If you think I'm smart enough to know what the heck a baby swan is called - you would be wrong.  On the other hand Liz knew (of course)

Well, the iPhone was not up to the task of the family picture.  I went home got Liz and the 5D.

Here is what I got: