...Over the Weekend...

...my siblings and I along with my sweet sister-in-law...my niece and her husband gathered at Mom's to rebuild her pool deck for her birthday...

....it was a chilly 35° F (1.66667° C) morning...

...my sweet brothers and sister and brother-in-law had already demolished the old deck and set the posts for the new one before this 'work' weekend...

...I bundled up in three layers...and started screwing 3 boards together to make the beams...

...and my sweet sissie took these photos of me...I chastised her for all the goofy faces...but apparently that's the only face I have...

...then...still gloved and sweater-clad...I climbed in between the joists to toe-nail them into the beams...

...and sissie said look up...so of course she got another goofy face from me...haha...but...the sun was in my eyes...that's my excuse...

...the first deck board in place...

...and then by lunch time...the deck was halfway done...

...we snapped chalk lines and sissie and I screwed all of the deck boards in place...

...after lunch it was nice (still cool) but I didn't need a sweater anymore...so a fairly non-goofy photo of me using the drill to screw down the decking...

...a non-rainy view from Mom's front porch...the last photo I posted of this view looked like there were snowy mountains in the background...but it was really just clouds...

...we repeated the morning's work on the other side in the afternoon...and by dinnertime...we were completely finished with the deck...my brothers are going to add a railing in a couple of weeks...no one will be using the deck 'til next summer anyway...

...deer in the field beside Nanny's old house...

...everyone gathered at my baby brother's house for a delicious dinner...

...vegan baked beans...stuffed mushrooms...coleslaw...and a tofurkey sausage...it was so delicious...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!