About 5 years back, there was a period with frost and the deck boards on the east side were snow/ice covered for a while. As the sun doesn’t reach there, these boards suffered more than on the other 2 decks. I replaced the boards worst damaged and gave them a Federal Blue stain coat.
The lighter ones have been replaced.
As you can see from the picture below, some really weren’t very solid anymore;
The siding boards were cut by the cabin builder Neil Buie, and some of those cedar boards weren’t top quality. So one decided to split in half. So today I replaced it with a new board.
It stands out now because it’s not stained, but as I’m out of stain that will be done next time I’m over, when I will probably give the logs a fresh coat of stain too
Whilst I was outside on the deck, I heard a swarm of birds take off. The reason they did was this guy (or girl, can’t tell)
It’s a Red-Tailed Hawk (according to copilot, because I just noticed it wasn’t a vulture).
They like high vantage points like my power line pole. The picture above is zoomed in as far as I could. below shows the original picture.
The deck was stained in the color Federal Blue. As that did not show anymore, it was time for a re-staining;
I ran out of stain, so got two new gallons to do the rest.
For the past years, every time I walked up to my home, I was annoyed by the trash can that did not have a lid.
The AC arrived on a big pallet, and since I have little use for a pallet, I decided to make a lid for the trash can.
It won’t win me any prizes, but it keeps the bin rain free, won’t blow off, smell less and it only cost me an hour to make it.
The remainder of the pallet I will use for the fire pit.