But not before another trip to the store to buy wood.
(Yes, I know the husband is wearing his mask incorrectly but his glasses kept fogging up)
Two perfect pieces for the top of the railing had to be found. And even though we were searching through the more expensive smoothed cedar boards?
They were rife with holes, chops, cracks and warty blemishes.
After 45 minutes…
We moved on to the 2×4’s.
Is it any wonder our small weekend projects turn into 3 month long slog fests?
So this is our deck, and those are the railings that will be replaced.
Hopefully by the end of summer.
Of 2020.
First step…. remove the old railings.
The first few were easy as they had been screwed.
Then it got harder with massive doubled rusty nails that didn’t want to let go.
Did I mention we picked the middle of a heat wave with record breaking temperatures to start this project.
How hot was it….?
Okay, not quite. Though it felt that way.
That thermometer was sitting on the table in direct sunlight.
It was actually this hot, in the shade.
And for Maine?
That is insanely frickin’ hot.
But progress was made.
And halted when rotting beam sections had to be cut out.
With 1950’s era tools.
Yes, I’m afraid so.
And you know what happens when you use power tools from the middle of the last century?
Nothing good.
I admire how your husband takes his sweet time…
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He takes his time. But I’m not sure it’s always sweet…..
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“(Yes, I know the husband is wearing his mask incorrectly but his glasses kept fogging up)” Glasses will not fog up if he pinches the thin metal band on the top of the mask against his nose. Classes in mask nose pinching every 2 hours!
Come on down and cool off–we had a high of ONLY 98 degrees!!
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He did pinch, always does, but he needed clear vision to see the tiny wood blemishes.
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NO!He is suppose to pinch the mask–not you!!! (Okay, it’s bad but it is Sunday so I am forgiven!)
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Well it seems more than the older wood is screwed, lmao. It was a cool 100 degrees in Maine, we could have used that cool wave, it was 107 in El Paso yesterday, and already 89 degrees at 6am this morning. I soooo want Winter to get here already.
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Yeah, you can have that. Four days of it was more than enough for me.
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Send me some of that heat!
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You can have it all. I despise it…
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“If you can’t take the heat, get INTO the kitchen” (where the cold beverages await!).
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I like the sound of that..
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Hell, that’s hot anywhere!
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Thankfully it’s a rarity here, I don’t deal well with heat and humidity. Makes me cranky.
😉
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Yep, that power cord is done. But the wire colors are kind of pretty. Perhaps an inspiration for another flowery plant grouping?
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Can’t do it. That would just encourage further use of the archaic tools.
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Wishing him and you all the best.
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You say that like you think we’ll need it.
🤣
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I’ve done deck repair.
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*gulp*
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How many flowers were sacrificed in the pursuit of this project??
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No flowers yet. Though 3 hostas have been crushed and 2 boxwood shrubs have broken branches.
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uh oh. Fred’ll pay for that.
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No. It was actually unavoidable and I kept my big mouth shut. For once!
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