Today is the day! The piles for our highly anticipated deck are being built!
To make matters even better, the sun is out, and beautiful, and HOT, and its just making me that much more ready to stretch out on my deck and relax while my children play outside. So, so ready.
To make matters slightly worse, our pile drilling guy broke one of his bobcats extension bits 😬 So that kind of super sucks. To be fair, we knew the risk was there. We have only heard ridiculous things about how rocky our area of town is, and we did warn him. This is why we didn’t want to hire anyone we knew personally. It would feel SO bad having that happen to a friend on our behalf. Even not knowing our pile guy, we still feel bad, but again, he was forewarned, so we don’t feel quite AS bad.
As I’m writing this, Brady is outside observing the work of the very last hole being dug! Its taken much longer than we expected, and likely longer than they expected as well. But its getting there! The pouring of the concrete is happening tomorrow morning, which I’m SO excited about! Our deck package is also being delivered tomorrow, so after that, its all up to us!! Brady and I are both itching to get out there and build our deck. He randomly has a few days off next week, so we’re hoping to find childcare here and there so we can duck out and work on the deck in the days. But if not, evenings post-bedtime will be fine, too. We’re just SO excited!!
The missing link at the moment is the railing. We haven’t ordered it yet!! Eek! Not ideal, obviously, but I kind of missed the memo that we hadn’t ordered it, and now its behind :/ But we have to run a few things by someone else before ordering it, and that person has an INCREDIBLY busy week ahead, so we haven’t wanted to pester him too much. Hopefully we get over it and willingly pester him soon, haha! I want my deck accessible to everyone! Decksessible! Get it? You get it.
So we wait. But we also don’t wait too long, because the process has FINALLY begun!!! I’ll update more tomorrow, obviously, because POURING PILES!
I never in my wildest dreams would have thought I’d be quite so excited about concrete…