Thursday, April 30, 2015

yeah..... finally, the deck!!!!!

It's always exciting when things.... the ones you have planned for, thought about and wished on.... finally come together. This is our new back deck.. delivered, and ready to be put into place......
As with all building projects.. plans change... and one thing I have learned over time.. you have to be flexible. Sometimes, you can't get all the things you want, and sometimes you have to wait... but those are just rules of life... right?
This is a big (huge) project and certainly a bit more than Ed can do on his own. The work is too heavy for me to help (on this part anyways).. so we gave Ken a call and reserved him for a couple of weekends to get started....
And this is "where" it will go. Our original plan was to have a three season sun room off the living area of the house. (where the brown doors are).. but budget soon ruled that out. Since the siding had to go on, we opted to -one day- put a big deck on the back and forget about the sunroom.....
The height of the house makes either plan possible... but I am going to be very happy with a deck, for one thing... it might save me some trips up and down the cellar stairs letting dogs out. The pantry door will (hopefully) have a door that has a doggie door and in time, the pups can just let themselves out into the yard.... but, I'm getting ahead of myself..... 
Even though we have always kept this door locked and often blocked... I have lived with the fear that someone might just open the door and fall out.... I am going to be thrilled that this won't be a worry anymore....
I try to imagine what it's going to look like... but I don't have that type of "vision"....
Livy was quite interested in the men working outside... it might be a task keeping everyone quiet when the work begins... they're certainly not used to 'seeing people outside this door"...
And the time in the dog yard will also have to be scheduled and work around the work going on. That could be interesting, but again... I'm more than happy to do what it takes...

Trev......
Livy.....
the brothers.......
well... time to get these doggies in and let the menfolk get to work....



I'm excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!