Arbor Days

I just got back from Washington DC -- I had a science education conference that was great. My folks even came to meet me for lunch one day. While I was gone, Ken spent 4 days building the structural parts of the arbor over our back deck. He's actually hand-chiseling the 18 foot long 4x6" beams that span the deck. Pretty impressive. The slats that go on top are finished being cut and chiseled, but the rain we had all weekend prevented us from adding the sealant to the rest of the beams (you can see the brown sealant between some of the joists) so we can finish the project. We've been painting the sealant on the slats in the garage all weekend. Now we're just waiting now for it to be sunny so we can finish the sealant on the main beams before we attach the slats. Here are two pictures of our progress.






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Congratulations to Karl and Wieke who got married in Tucson this weekend!