Finally!

In the midst of snow, someone finally showed up to put railings on my deck! I helped him sweep the snow off & I anxiously await the finished project. We bought a 10X10 deck package on May 24th at a Rotary "Live Home Improvement Auction" (a company donates a service or a product and then our money goes to a charity, while they get a tax receipt). Anyways Y-Homes never showed up until mid-August to look at the deck, came back mid-September to start and then left it until Halloween when I called for the fourth time and said, "look we're going away and hate that our yard is exposed to the neighborhood!" They came over, assured us it would be done by the time we got back (they had been here but still no railings). So... last week I sent off a "nice" little e-mail! There was no reply to it (or the phone calls for that matter) but yay someone is here! Oh... here it is a few hours later.... he was here for maybe 1/2 hour, put three posts up and left for the day! Our existing deck was kind of an "L" shape and was put up two years ago, right before we bought the house. The lumber was all new, even though the workmanship was not fabulous. We asked them to keep the original deck and then we wanted the 10X10 to be lower, but snuggled into the "L" to make one big square. This has been such an ordeal, you'd have thought that we asked them to build us a house on a deck budget or something! We also bought an exterior door from this auction that we still haven't seen yet.... how 'bout NO MORE auctions for this family! Maybe next year I'll have some deck pictures to show you!!!