Saturday, June 04, 2005


This is looking from the deck back through the breezeway, onto the driveway, and out to the ridge line to the West...The 6"x6" post is not staying...decided we didn't want any railing...just continuous porch/deck all the way around...the little triangle area will be landscaped for butterfliles and hummingbirds...and of couirse, deer. They are everywhere, and eat most anything and everything you plant...maybe they will soon figure out it is much easier to graze the neighbors yards for plant and grass than to climb such a steep hill and drive to get to ours...we'll see!!

This was taken from the back deck right outside the back door from the mudroom...this will be really cool when they build on the lot across the street...the loss of trees (though mourned) will allow a view year-round we think of the Pine Mountain ridge line to the NE...and hopefully a better chance of a distant, limited view of the lake...we'll see.

Another shot of how it blends in with the back deck...we are going to put a deck table and 4 chairs somewhere near the outside, to the right of BD. Also thinking of putting down a 24" square terracotta slab on which to place a chimanea for those biting late Fall and Winter evenings...

Completed on Friday evening! The railing is beautifully crafted of 2"x6" tops for the perfect resting place for your cold beer...or coke, or drink of choice...of course, I myself don't indulge in Demon Rum...well, maybe a cold beer now and then. In any event, the strps are all that's left (and the clean-up, of course). It looks like an outside dance floor actually...it is almost 600 sq feet...admission for friends, though, on dance nights is discounted of course. As you can see, BD is already watching the traffic in and out of the Community...this picture was taken from the breezeway between the front porch and the garage.

And tall...it is almost 5' from the deck floor to the ground...plus they are putting on a rail all the way around, and to the left side, actually about where the flagged tree is, there will be stairs down to the back yard...

It reaches around the garage side of the house from the back deck to the breezeway between the house and the garage, which also gives it access to the wrap-around front porch...so, you can come up on the front porch and walk entirely around the house to the back deck now...and it is huge!

This was the beginning of the deck extension...otherwise, there would have had to have been about 8 kabillion pallets of sod laid around the back of the house...since I feel that if I ever cut another blade of grass in my life it will be too soon, I opted for the deck...