The Home Stretch

Today, Saturday, August 9, 2008, we semi-finally completed the staining in advance of the rain. Everything but the brackets has two coats on it. The second coat will go up on the brackets when we get the time. We would not have gotten nearly as close to finishing if it weren't for the kindness of our friend Bob Paschall, who volunteered to help. He came over and stained lattice for several hours Friday morning.

We browsed through the photo archives looking for good before/after shots, and found a couple of good angles to show the contrasts. Below are early shots of the original yard taken before and during construction, followed by one taken today.

Before

After

Here are some more taken from a different angle:

After

How gratifying it is to see these photos and realize the amount of work that has been done. When it is all done, all touch-ups made, we will take a final group of photos and call the great Backyard Renovation Project complete.