OK. How to build a silly-looking pergola: dig four holes, rent a Home Depot truck and deliver yourself half a ton of pressure treated lumber in the dead of night, put gravel in the bottom of the holes, insert 6x6 beams, pour in 50 pounds of concrete and one gallon of water. After we did all that, lasagna (and obligatory bruschetta) with Ryan on the deck enjoying the majesty of four giant columns rising from the ground and connected at the top by impossibly small (temporary) bracing.
Sunday we were going to make great progress on the stairs, but the weather mega-discooperated and instead we had to settle for making a mess in the basement by cutting stringers indoors. Tonight we put up some of the landing framing after the neighbors strolled across the lawn and we chatted for a long time.
Monday, August 16, 2010