Three Fates and J Grow Up

So I wanted to update everyone on how the garden was looking one month in, but then this happened this morning.
It poured and poured and poured.  I felt so bad for our neighbors, they are having a garage sale today.
These pictures were taken at 10:00 this morning, and it's that dark out.  Then after the heavy stuff fell, a lite drizzle stuck around for a few hours more.  Yuck.  But I guess it's better then last years drought....

Wow, it's been a month since I updated this blog.  The last thing I wrote about was our deck build.  By the way, that's still not finished.  I keep meaning too, but I've been so busy at work that I haven't had a lot of time.
To be honest, we really haven't really done much around the house.  This semester is kicking J's butt and I've been trying to build Three Fates into more of a business and less of a hobby.  Good news, J only has two classes left and he will...

We decided when we started this project that we wanted a smooth, no nails/screws visible on the deck surface.  We first looked at a bracket system which held the decking from underneath.  It was beautiful, but those brackets were expensive...

We have installed all of the decking, YAY!  It finally is a usable deck, not a finished deck, but a usable one.  Which I'm okay with that.  So what did we accomplish this weekend?
Well we cut all the overhang off, which made it actually look like a deck.  First we marked where we needed to cut with a chalk line....