A long time ago (it seems anyway) we started on ripping out our deck as the first step in re-doing our entire backyard. Well with our most retarded weather we've had, it has come along a lot slower than we had hoped. But oh well.
Paul's brother, B.J., came over on a Saturday after a flag football practise and the two of them busted out the rest of that deck in no time flat. It was sure awesome.
I found it pretty funny that, once we had all the boards up and started working on the deck trusses, we discovered that our deck was being supported merely by a block of concrete sitting on dirt. Cool.
We spent a lot of time cutting down all those boards to take them out in smaller loads and soon after that we were able to get three truck loads of topsoil delivered.
Some time later, in between snow storms, my dad came out with the bobcat to move all that costly dirt around and tear up some trees in the process.
We had two medium-sized and one extremely large quakie in the back all piled up on top of each other. It was quite a bit of work (mostly for my husband!) to cut all that wood down and get it moved out but the good news is we have a nice head start on our firewood - booyah!
More to come!!
Holy Moly! What a lot of work! It feels good to get so much accomplished, doesn't it. Oh, and where was our phone call? Hello! Call us if you need help.
ReplyDeleteAs I told you on Saturday, your backyard looks so great! I am so excited to see what else you do to it!!
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