August 3rd, 2008
Mother nature hates us.
(by Peter)Our deck was in pretty bad shape when we first moved in. Our house was originally a rental so the tenants never maintained the deck and a few of the renters had dogs that just chewed and scratched the crap out of the wood and sealant.
After a year, we finally got around to restoring our deck. We got the sander ready, our counter-sink in hand, stain and brushes, and all sort of other goodies. Today, we started working on our deck.
I started counter-sinking the nails and Ann started sanding the old cruddy paint off. After an hour or so and discovering how beautiful the wood actually was underneath all the filth, *boom*.
We hear thunder in the distance and sure enough the black clouds were rolling in on us. Ann stopped sanding and covered the deck with garbage bags while I continued to sink as many nails I could before it started pouring.
We had to stop after another 15 minutes and come in. We didn’t get much done as I wanted to. Not even close. But I guess that’s what’s in the cards for us. I’m hoping we finish all the prep by tomorrow night and start applying stain Tuesday and but I highly doubt that’s gonna happen.
Wednesday’s our only open timeframe where it isn’t above 90 degrees and raining in order to get the stain to dry appropriately.
Le sigh…
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