The Gibbons' Family

Darren and I are learning that home ownership is a lot of work! There's taking the garbage to the street (every week!), mowing (again, every week!) and changing filters in stuff. Gosh, the list just never ends! Gone are the days we just paid rent and everything was done for us. So the projects begin...

Our new pergola, we're told, is just a fancy name for a trellis thingy that goes over your deck. Ours will have lovely vines covering it in a few years as well (that is if we ever get them planted & they don't die like my garden). I'm very proud to say Darren designed and built this himself. We've had a slight issue of having the sun beam in our deck doors from spring to fall to the degree one requires sunglasses inside while eating at the dinner table. This is so well thought out (he said something about basic trigonometry which just makes my head hurt) that the slats provide nearly 100% coverage in our kitchen from the late afternoon sun. It's also given our deck a nice quaint quality.

Stage 1

Stage 2 required lots of balancing on small ledges while hammering really loud

making me very nervous!

View from inside

Tada...the finished product except for staining (and one happy, relieved wife)!