August 10th

8/10/14
Don re-stained the wood on the deck then we moved on to doing the gate at the end of the stairs.  Good grief, pre-assembled gate my rear end.  We thought the gate would be the easy part and it turned into an hour and a half nightmare. We finally finished it and it looks good but after 8 hours outside in the direct sun it was a long day. Next up is staining more posts and cedar 2x4's to finish the garden box rails, then we can put in the flower box and utility box cover then we will finally be done with this almost 7 year project.  Thankfully this summer has cooperated weather wise and we hope it continues for another month.  After this side project we'll be focusing on refinishing the basement.  We did half of it already but the bigger half needs to be redone as well as the floor in the whole thing (new flooring Yeah!).  We're also going to repaint the basement bathroom which we put on the back burner about 2 months ago, to focus on the outdoor stuff.