In Over My Head...Part 2

So, I now have a huge hole in the side of my house...hoping with all the hope I can muster within me that the corner post is solid in the foundation.  Since the concrete saw will not return for a good week, I figured it would be best to at least go ahead with the other part of the weekend plan and begin constructing the deck.  The subfloor of the house is a couple feet higher than the "dog run", so I had to elevate the deck and build steps down to the garden area.

At least now I was in my realm as a carpenter!  This part seemed to flow as expected.  It helped that I had the assistance of a friend.  By the end of the weekend I had the deck finished.  It seemed like the weekend would never arrive as the wind and a bit of rain beat against the plastic covered hole the next couple of days.  But soon enough I had a larger hole cut and the door installed.  In the end...it turned out magnificent.

Lizzie and I spend a lot of time out on this deck.  We love relaxing, watching the sunset, and looking down on our vegetables, herbs, and flowers throughout the growing season.  This was a tremendous task to approach by myself.  There was no plan to follow, just the 'ol one-step-at-a-time approach and make the next step based on the previous results.  We had no idea how we would close off the small area between the new door and the corner of the house.  We decided to put glass blocks in the space...the blocks were exactly 8 inches square...and the space turned out to 8 1/8 inches!  A perfect fit.  Guess Lizzie and I are living right!