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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Quick Update

It's been so hard to find the time to blog lately, but I assure you we have been busy little bees here at the Montague household! I got a good bit of painting done inside (including one extra exciting feature which I will share a picture of later!) and Greg has been working his tail off (literally) on the outside (more on that below). Our deck is almost finished too! We got the concrete poured for the base of our steps last week and we will hopefully be finishing the steps and the remainder of the railings next weekend. My dad spent an entire weekend measuring and prepping for these steps. I just had to be difficult and insist on these fancy steps :).

Our lawn looks great! Greg cut the whole 1.5 acres with a non-self propelled push mower the other day!! I couldn't believe it. We inherited a free riding mower, but it's not working just yet. And we also inherited a free push mower (that works). My man has some ambition, I'll tell you! He also surprised me two weekends ago by building the cutest fenced-in raised veggie garden while I was away in Boston. It's not quite finished, but it looks so good so far and we even planted a few cold-weather crops last weekend. We'll be planting the rest next weekend hopefully. And then Peter can have a place to run outside finally!!

I will post some pictures of the garden soon!

Friday, April 5, 2013

Deck Update #5


We made a lot of progress last weekend!  We got all of the deck boards down on both levels, finished the steps between levels and started on the railings.  We're taking this weekend off, but I'm hoping we can get the rest of the railings done next weekend then the fascia the weekend after that.  Then all we will have left is the bottom steps, which are going to be the trickiest part of the deck.  We plan to add a patio in the next year or two, so we have to make sure we coordinate the bottom of our steps with our future patio as best we can. 

First railing up!
Beginning of the steps
We made the boards long and just cut off the excess after they were all down.
 
Dad trimming the boards.
My lovely husband!
Only one casualty so far... Greg hit his finger with a sledgehammer :(
Dad cutting some notches for around the posts.
Close up of the Timbertech concealed fasteners.
Greg would wack the boards into place....
...then I'd follow up and fasten them.
Close up of one of the post installations.
 
We are on the homestretch!!!