Labor Day Weekend 2025

On Sunday, Scott removed the old decks that were on the side and front of the house. We had always planned on redoing them, but I think he had to do it now so he would be able to do the siding on those sides of the house.

Then he spent the rest of the day replacing rotted wood on the water-table boards that sit on top of the concrete footer and some joists. 

On Monday, he left in the morning, stopped and got siding supplies, then started the prep work and siding on another side of the house.

I got there about 3. My main job was to burn the deck wood. Before I did it, I wanted to swap out this nice metal fire ring we got from his dad for the cinder blocks that have made the fire pit up until now. 

Scott said if I was going to do that, I could take the mini sledge and smash the cinder blocks into bits to fill holes in the driveway.  The picture below is the last pile of the blocks I had left before I thought to take a picture.

I doubted it would be as easy as he suggested, but I took a couple swings. Yeah, no way. I could have spent the rest of the day smashing rocks like a convict doing hard labor, but that would be lunacy and I don't think I would have gotten very far. So I just carted it all out to the riverbank in the wheelbarrow. It was about 6 trips.

I cut up a lot of boards so they'd fit in the firepit. I burned the whole time I was there but only got about halfway through.