Rot. Is not. Good.

In a classic case of Murphy's Law of home renovation (any project will take three times as long and cost five times as much as originally planned), we started off this weekend thinking we were going to replace a couple of boards on our deck, and by Monday night were the proud owners of an entirely (except for the concrete pilings) new deck. It turned out that the supports under the deck were rotting pretty badly, so we thought it would be prudent to replace everything before someone we really liked fell through. :) Greg had a friend from church come over to help him with it, and they did an awesome job!! It was kind of an unexpected expense, but fortunately we didn't have any other major expenses planned for this summer, so it will work out okay.

<-- 'Before' picture - and the one rotten board that started this whole procedure!






<-- The rot! The middle board was pretty much soil it was so wet, and the two outer boards weren't too much better in places.








<-- Hooray! A new solid foundation!








<-- Farrell putting in screws late into the night. :)








<-- The (sort of) finished product! Railings and stairs coming soon!