Before and during...

started off with a quick breakfast...I have been in the mood for grape jam lately...

what's up with that?...and I'm not pregnant...

things are getting a bit yucky here...this was my brilliant idea last night...

to have at least one thing that looks decent and clean...and cozy...

"them there are trees, Ethel...."

can you imagine someone growing trees on their deck???

how redneck is that?...

we were going green...but the wrong type of green...it's all scrubbed off now...

used Mr. Clean with febreeze in it...OMG(and that's OH MY GOSH)...it smells good!...

you gotta try it...

then Rebecca showed up...I bought this from her last barn gathering...

true friend's deliver...

and I didn't post your photo, Rebecca...

and she looked so cute, too...

then we snagged the portulaca off of the hook and dead headed it...

it's going to bloom again and again...

Daphne making sure Craig gets it hung back up right...

almost everything is moved off...and the deck scrubbed...

we kept putting this off because we are having a new deck put on this summer with a roof...

but a couple months ago... my husband's job became iffy...and we wanted to wait to make sure he still had one...

so I'm sitting on the money...

we figure one more month and it will be safe enough...

I can't wait...

I love sitting out in the rain...

check back in later for the finished project...

what I have in my head is cool if we can just make it happen...