After a month of sawing, sanding, painting, and the occasional swearing, I finished the second floor deck railing project this week. While it isn't quite as straight in places or joined up quite as square in others that I would like, the new railings at least aren't rotted through. I do believe no one runs the risk of falling through a railing any longer or snapping off a piece in their hands which seems to be a plus even if I couldn't get every post absolutely level. As in any project of this scale there is a fair amount of satisfaction that comes with the completion. Now if there just wasn't another five projects lined up behind this one.
We had a very enjoyable weekend managing to get in a nice bike ride in which we found a very large turtle on the bike path (leading naturally to a why the turtle crossed the bike path joke). I think it might be a snapping turtle, but I didn't get close enough to be snapped at and my turtle identification skills leave a lot to be desired (although, I can correctly identify it as a turtle so they aren't completely absent). We also took advantage of the sunshine late in the day on Saturday to make our first trip to the Estabrook beer garden for our favorite HofBrau House beer and soft pretzel. Since we decided to make that our dinner we followed it up with our first Dairy Queen blizzards of the year for dessert. As we biked to the beer garden and for ice cream we figured managed to stay calorie neutral (30 minutes of biking for about 100 calories offsetting a beer, half a pretzel with cheese dip, and a medium blizzard for about 1,000 calories - seems about neutral).
Friday night after a long, busy week for Jo we enjoyed some cocktails and snacks on our front porch for the first time since the weather finally turned a little warmer and afterwards we tucked into some home made sausage and mushroom pizza as we binge watched This Is Us that everyone has been talking about. We also managed to get the majority of garden finally planted and even have some initial sprouts from our potatoes, cucumbers, and spinach - so there hope for something to come after our cool May.
After a month of sawing, sanding, painting, and the occasional swearing, I finished the second floor deck railing project this week. While it isn't quite as straight in places or joined up quite as square in others that I would like, the new railings at least aren't rotted through. I do believe no one runs the risk of falling through a railing any longer or snapping off a piece in their hands which seems to be a plus even if I couldn't get every post absolutely level. As in any project of this scale there is a fair amount of satisfaction that comes with the completion. Now if there just wasn't another five projects lined up behind this one.
We had a very enjoyable weekend managing to get in a nice bike ride in which we found a very large turtle on the bike path (leading naturally to a why the turtle crossed the bike path joke). I think it might be a snapping turtle, but I didn't get close enough to be snapped at and my turtle identification skills leave a lot to be desired (although, I can correctly identify it as a turtle so they aren't completely absent). We also took advantage of the sunshine late in the day on Saturday to make our first trip to the Estabrook beer garden for our favorite HofBrau House beer and soft pretzel. Since we decided to make that our dinner we followed it up with our first Dairy Queen blizzards of the year for dessert. As we biked to the beer garden and for ice cream we figured managed to stay calorie neutral (30 minutes of biking for about 100 calories offsetting a beer, half a pretzel with cheese dip, and a medium blizzard for about 1,000 calories - seems about neutral).
Friday night after a long, busy week for Jo we enjoyed some cocktails and snacks on our front porch for the first time since the weather finally turned a little warmer and afterwards we tucked into some home made sausage and mushroom pizza as we binge watched This Is Us that everyone has been talking about. We also managed to get the majority of garden finally planted and even have some initial sprouts from our potatoes, cucumbers, and spinach - so there hope for something to come after our cool May.
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