On the way to our site, we passed a couple of old homes worth pictures. In the initial images, you can see the structure we erected for the porch at our site and also you can see Loraine's house in relation to Trading Creek. During the day Paul and Jane finished putting the spindles on the gate and were able to get the gate hung and working smoothly (Loraine tested it). As we worked, we noticed two inspectors sitting up high in nearby trees, making sure our work was acceptable. For the porch, we hung the joists and began the process of laying down the deck. Because of the length of the porch, 3 inches longer than our 14 foot 5/4" X 6" deck boards, we placed two extra joists and will put one of the deck boards on each end of the porch and lay the other deck boards between them. During our work, the power went off in the hollow (we thought we had blown a fuse), so we reverted to old technology, sawing by hand. We will finish up the decking tomorrow, if we can beat the rain. We also began digging post holes for the stairs coming off the porch.
The day was beautiful and sunny, even though, as you can see from the way Betsy was dressed in an early picture, it was cold to begin with.
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