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Archive for March 18th, 2007

Remember the pond?

It’s baccccckkkk!  And at the end of its third season.

Keith is tearing out our original backyard deck to build a pond-plumbing-friendly deck.  This new deck will be stronger and better designed than the original, and will allow for the plumbing that needs to run under it.

The pond (on the left) looks a whole lot like the last time we visited it.  That vegetation is not overgrown.  It’s….ummmm….”natural.”  Yes, that’s it.  We’ve gone back to nature.  Next thing you know, we’ll be beating tamborines and humming “Kumbaya.”

The deck stairs now lead to….nowhere.

Watch it, Hannah!  Without the deck to walk out upon, that first step is a doozy!  And straight down several feet to limestone bedrock. We’re locking – and blocking – the back door in the kitchen.

Keith is the only man I’ve ever known to actually wear out hammers.  When this project is finished, that seven-year-old with three-years-of-pond-construction Fiesta T-shirt is going in the trash.  I wouldn’t even give it to Goodwill.

Because this is not enough mess/confusion – he is also replacing the carpeting in the living room cum office with laminate flooring.

Basically, you can take any object – file cabinets, drill bits, CD’s, CAT 5 wiring, storage boxes, lamps, saws, PVC pipe, chainsaw, empty Diet Coke cans – and set them down in any room of our house, or anywhere around our house – and they look like they belong, since there’s something dust-covered and similar plopped next to it.

Stay tuned for the next installment of “A Man and His Pond.”  Maybe it’ll be the season finale?!