deck

When we moved into our home three years ago there was a small deck off of the kitchen. When you walked out on it the thing swayed. With that and the fact that when it was built they left one corner without boards on it. Because Monkey was learning how to crawl I decided that it needed to be replaced. We tore it down and started planning another deck. Well three years later, we have finally finished the first step in getting the deck up!

Spencer works for the power company. A couple of months ago I had the thought that it would be nice if we could get the truck they use to dig the holes for power poles. I didn't really think that it would happen. Then two weeks ago Spencer got the idea in his head to use old power poles as the supports for the deck. He talked with the line supervisor for the office here and was told that it would be no problem. So this afternoon they showed up and planted seven posts for my deck! It sure was nice to not have to dig the holes by hand. It was also nice to have three extra sets of hands to get the posts in the whole so all I had to worry about keeping little boys out of the way. I am so very excited to have something done on the ddeck. I have missed not having the deck out back to relax on in the evenings.

It is like Spencer said though... we got the hard part done and now comes the expensive part.