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[drscott]

Whipped up a big batch of healthy spice bread (with raisins, walnuts, cranberries, cherries, etc), drizzled it with apricot liqueur, and took part of it to square dancing. They ate most of it, which I guess is a good thing.

Today's fun house project was the continuing saga of the deck. The deck is made of artificial wood fiber/plastic composite that looks like sunbleached wood; it's attached to pressure-treated sleepers over concrete around the pool so that (ideally) the edges are flush with the pool coping (concrete pieces forming the rim of the pool.) We had it put in to replace the crumbling redwood deck three years ago. Unfortunately, a palm tree grew a bit too fast against one edge of the deck and forced the other edge into the coping, breaking the stainless steel screws fastening it to the concrete below.

Here's a picture of some friends of ours enjoying the deck:


So after chopping some additional space around the palm tree's trunk to relieve the pressure, I've been installing new screws to bring the deck back into alignment with the coping. As usually happens, I went to the hardware store four times to get various things, the last time for a set of countersinks (drill bits that make a conical hole to allow a typical screw's top surface to be flush to slightly inset into the surface being screwed into.)

Finally done with all that, except for the extra holes I drilled where there was either no concrete below or where I ran into metal rebar and couldn't drill the hole deep enough. Oops.

Aren't I butch? If I wear my toolbelt and nothing else, will you sleep with do me? :-)

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[clintswan.livejournal.com]

yes i think i would!