{"id":518,"date":"2012-03-31T09:18:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T13:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=518"},"modified":"2012-03-31T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T15:17:56","slug":"saturday-31-march-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/03\/31\/saturday-31-march-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 31 March 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

09:18 –<\/span> I’m taking a day off writing today to get some work done on the new batch of chemistry kits.
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11:17 –<\/span> Barbara says it’s time to replace the deck. I’m sure she’s right, since the deck was built with the house in 1968 with pressure-treated wood, and hasn’t had much maintenance since then. Yesterday, one of the sides fell off. Hmmm.
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So, after Tax Day, I’m going to start researching options. We already know we don’t want pressure-treated wood. We want something that’s as low-maintenance as possible, like vinyl or composite. We also know that we don’t want or need a new deck as large as the old one. We seldom entertain, and when we do it’s usually just one or at most two other couples. We need room for a gas grill, a small table, and four to six chairs. Barbara and I just went out with the tape measure, and we decided a deck 13 or 14 feet (~ 4 meters) by 8 or 9 feet (~ 2.5 meters) would suffice.
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I do want to have room for one special feature: a pivoting trap door in the floor above a tank of piranha, with a squirrel feeder positioned such that a squirrel would have to step on the pivoting trap door to reach the feeder. We have squirrels year-round, so the piranha starving to death won’t be an issue.
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09:18 – I’m taking a day off writing today to get some work done on the new batch of chemistry kits.\n<\/p>\n

11:17 – Barbara says it’s time to replace the deck. I’m sure she’s right, since the deck was built with the house in 1968 with pressure-treated wood, and hasn’t had much maintenance since then. Yesterday, one of the sides fell off. Hmmm.\n<\/p>\n

So, after Tax Day, I’m going to start researching options.<\/p>\n

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