Deck Troubles

This last weekend, my little (or not so little) brother David came down to help us work on the deck. We had great plans...sleep in a little Saturday morning, eat a nice big breakfast, hit Lowes for the lumber and then build that baby! Ha. The best laid plans of mice and men often go  often go astray (I've never talked to mice about it, but that's a very old and reliable phrase so it has to be true). The first part of the day went fine....we had a nice breakfast (though I burned some of the cinnamon swirl toast :( ), David and Josh went to the house to measure for front porch materials while I cleaned the house for a showing later that day. We ended up spending two hours in Lowes picking out materials, then headed home....And that's where it started going down hill...literally. Going down a big hill with a little truck and a heavily loaded trailer didn't go as well as we planned. We're very blessed to not have flipped our little truck or taken out any other vehicles,  the trailer had a mind of it own and truck and trailer swerved wildly over both lanes of traffic, until the trailer jack-knived and the tire decided it couldn't take it any more...which brought us screeching to a halt in the middle of the road. We were able to limp the trailer to the side of the road and called a good friend who said he had a spare tire and would come rescue us. Unfortunately, that tire didn't fit, so Josh and I took the friends car to the nearby Sam's Club to have it replaced....unfortunately, they didn't have a tire that fit either. So we drove all the way across town to a tire shop, where a nice manager squeezed us into their very busy Saturday evening schedule and fixed the tire. So...by the time we got home and unloaded the materials it was well, dark. And time for dinner. A good note of the day was that our good friend and cabinet maker came over to measure for cabinets, which we designed that night. They're going to look awesome and I can't wait to see them!!

Until the next update,

Josh and Rebecca