A New Deck

My house is an old church.  The addition on the front was added in the late 1950s.  The deck was added then too.  Here’s a before (well, kinda before) picture.  The steps were so bed that they were hazardous.  Grandma Irene hated to climb the stairs to our front doors.  She is getting on in years and stairs are getting tough for her.

 

Old deck with stairs removed

 

My parents came to visit for a week after baby Matthias was born.  Dad needed a project.  So we decided that the deck really did need to be done this summer.  Being that summer is almost over, we got right on it.  What they thought would take no more than  couple days ended up taking all week.  But the final product is incredible, in my opinion.

New deck and stairs with railings!

My dad wrote on his facebook status the following that I thought was really interesting and thought provoking:

Had fun tearing the old deck off yesterday. The 12x12 timbers were very interesting, they were kind of like some people, looking pretty good on the outside but rotten to the core on the inside. As we proceeded the timbers were also like us, put under a bit of pressure they fell apart, and only God could of put them back together again.

I am waiting for a nice sunny fall day to spend on the deck and soak up what’s left of the sunshine before winter hits for real.

 

Striving to learn and live God's purposes,