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Beautiful weather, a porch, and Facebook
Apr. 29th, 2018 10:58 amI totally forgot I haven't mentioned it here: I deleted my Facebook. I weighed the options and realized I was just feeling much more stressed at baseline because I HAD a Facebook, so I ditched it. It wasn't worth the mental stress. Now, I do miss a few people I only ever kept up with on Facebook, but overall, big decrease in stress. Now if only the president would give up Twitter...
Yesterday was a GORGEOUS day, and we got started building my porch! I have wanted a roof over our back deck since we moved into this house in 2011, and finally we've gotten around to it. I say "we" but I am not the person building the porch. No, that honor goes to my parents, who are the people you want to take with you if you must be stranded on a deserted island. If you can't find a way off it, at least you'll be living in a bamboo mansion which somehow has indoor plumbing.
At 9:47 am Daddy arrived with the goods:
Couple of hours later we already had 4 posts planted: 2 of which were dug into post-holes and seated in cement, and 2 of which had been anchored by drilling into existing concrete. An hour after that we were here:
By the time they decided to leave in the afternoon, we were here:
My parents are capable of an incredible amount of work in a very short amount of time. Always have been; it's a huge strength of theirs. Another is Daddy's ability to essentially freehand designs of a fairly large nature. There is no plan or design for this porch roof other than the one in his head. He measured the porch and from there decided how much and how many of everything he'd need, scribbled down a list & estimated prices. That was the extent of the planning.
Found this growing unexpectedly in my yard. I'm not sure what kind of flower it is, but it's precious I want to dig it up & put it in a pot. Edited to add: it appears to be nothoscordum bivalve, commonly called crow poison or false garlic.
And finally, my feet in my hammock with a background of the sky through my trees.
Yesterday was a GORGEOUS day, and we got started building my porch! I have wanted a roof over our back deck since we moved into this house in 2011, and finally we've gotten around to it. I say "we" but I am not the person building the porch. No, that honor goes to my parents, who are the people you want to take with you if you must be stranded on a deserted island. If you can't find a way off it, at least you'll be living in a bamboo mansion which somehow has indoor plumbing.
At 9:47 am Daddy arrived with the goods:
Couple of hours later we already had 4 posts planted: 2 of which were dug into post-holes and seated in cement, and 2 of which had been anchored by drilling into existing concrete. An hour after that we were here:
By the time they decided to leave in the afternoon, we were here:
My parents are capable of an incredible amount of work in a very short amount of time. Always have been; it's a huge strength of theirs. Another is Daddy's ability to essentially freehand designs of a fairly large nature. There is no plan or design for this porch roof other than the one in his head. He measured the porch and from there decided how much and how many of everything he'd need, scribbled down a list & estimated prices. That was the extent of the planning.
Found this growing unexpectedly in my yard. I'm not sure what kind of flower it is, but it's precious I want to dig it up & put it in a pot. Edited to add: it appears to be nothoscordum bivalve, commonly called crow poison or false garlic.
And finally, my feet in my hammock with a background of the sky through my trees.
