Even after cutting back to only really talking about weekends, I have managed to fall woefully behind….
Anyway, The second major part of our trip back to McCook was helping Dad build a deck.
The work was really planned for a few weeks later, but the lumber was delivered a few weeks early. We thought it would be good to get a jump start on the project, and at least lay the initial frame down.
We quickly discovered that the lumber sold as deck building material isn’t particularly exacting with respect to dimensions, so some of our assumptions and plans ended up being derailed. After some minor fussing, we figured our a plan that would work out ok, and finished the frame Sunday night. Dad and I decided to see how far we could get before noon Monday, and actually managed to 100% finish laying out and tacking down the decking.
As you can kind of see in the picture, we pried up the paving stones that would be covered by the new deck. That is going to be another project, but at least we got started re-orienting the pathway to match up with the new deck.
-Jordan
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