Victor Wooten

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/45171/victor_wooten_amazing_grace_bass_solo/

Someone knows how to play a bass guitar ??? Just Maybe :)

Our Pup

This is our dog Lady Remington Mocha Delainy (Remi for short).

In this picture Remi has just knocked Ben into a small lake.

She is now about ten months old....









We were hiking in an amazing state park called Pipestem. It is not too far from our house... :)

The Deck has changed this spring.....

By the 17th of May, we had torn down the deck. The yard looked rather empty for a while....

Taking the old deck down.

Ben and Tim taking down the old deck. Ben swinging the sledge hammer, getting the deck down.  Aaron taking his turn.  Good to have hard working boys. 

Pre-new deck pictures.

Here are some pre-new deck pictures. As you can see this deck is not in the best shape.  The deck had a large part of it missing, this is partly where a swimming pool was a far we can tell.  The deck also had weak boards and nails jutting up.  We are so very thankful to have gotten this deck up and running. 

And they are done....

And this is the deck... We are going to put up handrails later...

We are hoping to be able to invite people over for a grill out soon... :)

The Building of the Structure

Lee and Carol Ymker, their son, Mike, and Jim Friedrich came down to build our Deck.

This first photo is Jim and Mike working on the post-holes

This second photo is the first day's (May 18th) work.

May 19th we put on most of the decking...

The Deck (May 17th)

This is our deck after we tore it down... Wait! .... This is where our deck was....

This is the morning of the 17th of May.

The Original Deck

This is Aaron and a friend shucking corn last fall. They are sitting on the original deck. The deck did have a swimming pool in the space you see in front of the boys, but it had already been demolished when we bought the house.

So this is what it looked like. Many nails were sticking up and the entire deck was in rather rough shape.

But this has all changed now.....