Its been an entire year since we ripped out the ugly patio/rotten cover thing as described here. Today, we finally decided the time had come to fill in the void, and build the deck. Unbelievably, Jason had the whole job completed in five hours with the "deck block" system, that requires no digging of holes and no cement.
Later on, we can add some rails, a step and something pretty to hide the blocks showing from below. Maybe next year:)
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