Thursday, July 31, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 212
Deck Renovation Project Day 52, 53 & 54: Lots of paint and yesterday's biggest development was coming home late from a day trip to Water Country and seeing the start of the screen installation! Today it was more finishing work and hopefully the rest of the screens will be installed tomorrow!
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 210
Evan showing me his freckles...unfortunately they don't show as well in the picture.
Monday, July 28, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 209
The skies opened up today, it was like Noah's Arc style rain and so that prevented work on the deck. Hopefully we dry out so they can pick up with the painting tomorrow. I was reading upstairs when I realized how quiet it was in the house. I came down to find the boys building a massive fort. They asked me to take a picture of their hard work...how could I say NO to that!
Sunday, July 27, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 208
On Friday David taught himself how to dive. I tried to give him tips, but I was having a hard time showing him. He watched another kid diving and tried to copy his moves and practiced over and over until he finally got it. He still needs to work on his form (like keeping his head down and his feet together) but he was really proud of himself and so was I!
Saturday, July 26, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 207
Evan gaining more confidence in the pool. He swam the entire length without help. I still wouldn't let him swim alone without a vest yet, but I think he is close! We'll keep practicing....maybe before summer is over!
Friday, July 25, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 206
Deck Renovation Project Day 51: The rest of the beams are wrapped, another coat of red paint applied, lots of cream paint started, they prepped the ceiling for the screens and the railings are now 100% installed. We also got our new patio furniture delivered and finished setting it all up tonight!
Thursday, July 24, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 205
Last nights rain storm soaked all the wood that needed to be painted so no deck update today. Instead here are the boys with their first friends. They met at a park on a summer day in July 6 years ago and have been the best of friends ever since! I'm so glad we can meet up every now and then and it's amazing to see them just pick up where they left off.
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 204
Deck Renovation Project Day 50: More paint and railing work, they also began working on wrapping the lower beams!
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Monday, July 21, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 202
Deck Renovation Project Day 48: Today they made the door for the shed and began installation of the rest of the railings! No more crime scene tape!
Sunday, July 20, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 201
Finally getting around to editing our Staycation pictures. Here are the boys from our day trip to Story Land back on the 10th!
Saturday, July 19, 2014
Friday, July 18, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 199
Deck Renovation Project Day 47: Today they put in the access door for the space under the stairs, and installed soffit all around the overhang to prevent bugs and birds and other nature like stuff from getting inside the shed space.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 198
Deck Renovation Project Day 46: The wall and the stairs are complete. We decided to have them put an access door for under the stairs...to serve as a dungeon for misbehaved children (joking...of course...kinda sorta...). We figured it couldn't hurt to have access in the event we wanted to use the space.
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 197
Deck Renovation Project Day 45: Work resumed this afternoon after the massive torrential downpours this morning. They were able to get most of the wood on the stairs and continued on with the wall.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 196
Deck Renovation Project Day 44: Continuing the stairs and putting up a wall to cover the space under the stairs.
Monday, July 14, 2014
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Saturday, July 12, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 193
Annual trip to find local fireworks with Grammy! The show tonight was probably the best local fireworks show I have ever seen! Very impressed with the little town of Weare.
Friday, July 11, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 192
Deck Renovation Project Day 42: Prep work for the stairs for the lower level platform deck.
Thursday, July 10, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 191
Deck Renovation Project Day 41: The last of the stairs completed. Now we just need some railings! Not sure what the agenda is for the rest of the project, since we were not home today. We took the boys to StoryLand for the day!
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 190
Deck Renovation Project Day 40: The last two steps for the staircase to the lower level, and the concrete slab to rebuild the original steps to the deck.
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Monday, July 7, 2014
Sunday, July 6, 2014
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Friday, July 4, 2014
Thursday, July 3, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 184
Deck Renovation Project Day 37: Today the decking was completed on the platforms, and then they installed clapboard on the shed space wall and started cutting out the stairs!
365 ~ 2014: Day 183
Deck Renovation Project Day 36: Was more of the same, laying down the decking on the platforms, which looked like very tedious work due to all the precise angles and having to pre-drill every hole for the screws. The storm rolled in around 4pm and lasted well into the night causing an 8 1/2 hour power outage. Since there wasn't much to photograph as far as progress (and I was not about to go out into the storm anyway), I am posting another mini-project we had done this week; our new mailbox and light post! I wasn't sad to see our ghetto box, which was in worse shape after I back into it with Charlie's car a few weeks ago!
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
365 ~ 2014: Day 182
Deck Renovation Project Day 35: Finished the wall for the shed and the finished the decking to the lower level and started the platforms!
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