brandt gets to play with power tools!

fortunatly, our only damage from the hurricane was some missing roofing from our back porch. ive been bugging brandt about it for a month now, b/c it looks easy to reaplace. i am a fan of projects and building things, so i was excited. this is going to be fun, right?

well, in the world of brandt, notsomuch.

he wanted to hire someone ($$$!) to do it for us. oh come on! how hard can this be! its wood and hardware! i begged and pleaded about redoing it ourselves.

we compromised by saying all we would replace would be the top, the rest stays, in order to save money. (yes, this from the contractor-happy guy, i think he really meant less work, not less money!) i was pretty bummed b/c i would love to change up the shape of it in order for the grill and table to fit a little more harmoniously. one day...

so with minimal work ahead of him, brandt got motivated one afternoon and we started tearing down the remaining now brittle and sun-baked fiberglass roofing.

so we got the fiberglass off. found some wierd things. hot glue? nails with rubber washers on them? styrofoam half circle thingies? man this dude must not have known what he was doing...


we also found rotten wood. so that came down. the wood that was nailed into? rotting. so that came down. my "afternoon project" was getting a little more intensive...

many thanks to my wonderful hubby who isn't complaining and is doing majority of the work himself, since we don't have alot of overlapping time at home.

even if i dont get a totally new deck, i'm happy. but since the previous owners had it painted, we have to paint the whole thing too, instead of staining it like we would like. so i have to decide if i would like to stick with the off white that it is now, or maybe something a little different. i am thinking a light green. like sagey, not bright. i do have some restraint when it comes to colors!

*pic of brandt freaking out is not really related to this entry... its from a friend's wedding. i was taking pics after the ceremony, and he was bored. sitting alone. with a camera.