A Table for the Deck

Last summer when I was building the veranda deck around the house, I culled out all of the best fir 2 x 6's and stored them in the garage to dry over the winter.  So, on the first weekend of summer holidays, I decided to see if I could put in a marathon effort and build a table in two days.  I came close but needed another evening to finish the construction and a few more hours to apply a couple of coats of finish.

So far  so good - seats 8 easily with room for pizza!

Landscaping & Grass Planting

With this being considered one of the best times of the year to seed a new lawn we have been focussed on getting our summer deck and landscaping project completed with a nice bit of grass on each side.  We had two dump truckloads of topsoil delivered last week (24 cu.yds. total) but then our Bobcat driver got tied up at another job so we started moving dirt by wheel barrow late last week and completed all of the moving, spreading, rolling, levelling and re-rolling on the weekend.  Evidently a cubic yard can fill 6 heaping wheelbarrow loads, so 6 x 24 would be the number of wheelbarrow loads that were shovelled in by hand, dumped out and spread.

The first three photos show a 12 yard pile that was moved on Sunday taken in 1 hour segments and no, in the third picture I am not wearing a dirty white T-shirt and/or long reddish-brown gloves!