Whew. Well, this morning I was able to get the support installed on the north wall for the sunbreak, and the side support for the stair platform. This is going to be difficult, because it gets so damn hot by noontime, it’s impossible to work out there. Hopefully I’ll get the OK from my other neighbor to drill into their wall so I don’t have to engineer posts and support columns, and I can put up the sunbreak in another morning or two. That will make the deck go a lot smoother.
Meanwhile, the irrigation system is working perfectly; my only complaint is that I can’t adjust the valve for anything lower than 15 minutes’ time—at the tenth minute or so there’s a stream of runoff out the back alley down to the drain, and I hate to waste that water. But at least the drainage is working correctly in all the planters!
BTW, the tires in that picture are now gone, along with the Peavey 40-watt bass amp my dad bought me when I was 15. Both went before 11am at the Route 90 sale, and I made $100! (Sad tip of the hat to that amp. Rock on, old friend…)
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Whew! what a beautiful vacation that was.
Where do I start? I don’t think there was one thing that was bad, other than unseasonably hot weather up there. Jen and I were treated to two absolutely glorious days in the water, evenings on the porch, browsing antiques on the Route 90 sale, and ice cream at a roadside stop. We both wanted to stay until the end of summer.