Matt had some time to work on Friday this week, so the progress is a little bit more impressive for the week-end review than it has been for the last few weeks!
Coming around the back of the garage you can see the back deck starting to come together.
He's working his way back toward Bobbi's bedroom windows. The hope is that this is an outdoor space in the shade that Bobbi can use when the weather is nice. We are planning to have the deck flush with grade on two of the three exposed sides, and at one of those edges we're going to slightly relocate a section of our raspberry bushes so Bobbi will be able to go outside and pick her own berries like the rest of us can!
A wire we'd been wondering how we were going to handle ended up falling RIGHT between two boards!
While Matt worked on deck boards, I trundled dirt from the stock pile in the east yard over to the deck edge. We'll need some rain (please!) to get things settled in properly, but a first pass is a good thing. Every little bit helps, right?
We've only been picking up as many deck boards as we can fit in our vehicle, and have to make one more trip before we'll have all that we need, so when Matt ran out of boards, he went up front and got the light fixtures properly installed on the overhang over the main entry! Yay! I'll have to get a photo at night sometime - very warm and inviting.
He also got a little further on the front deck. Now we're just waiting to order the grate for shoe scraping (and for access to the well pump, which is under the deck! Funny how the depth of the overhang is also contingent on being able to get to that well when needed!)
In the evening when the littles were in bed, Matt and Rinnah and I came back out to make a few more loads of dirt with the wheelbarrow. Here they're standing up on top of the pile pushing dirt down to loosen it because the dirt mound is pretty well packed after sitting there over the winter!
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