All Deck Posts Capped

 

Song:  Sweet Return

Artist:  Hilary Stagg

I started the day with a big meal...

as I wanted it to keep me going all day.

I had made these beefer sliders the other day...

and as I hadn't had them in such a long time...

and they had tasted so good the other day...

 I went food shopping yesterday...

to buy more of the needed ingredients.

It is a very simple...

but hearty meal.

You simply brown 1 lb of ground beef...

season well with salt and black pepper...

...and you top each beefer slider with grated cheese...

and verde sauce.

This verde is so delicious.

I made each slider with buttery croissants.

After I brown the ground beef...

I simply load it into a left overs refrigerator container.

This way...

as I will only eat about half of the ground beef...

I can just put on the cover and place it directly into the fridge...

once I am done eating.

I would end up eating the whole container of these croissants.

As you can see...

I love soaking the ground beef in the verde sauce.

They had tasted so delicious that I had eaten 12 of them.

I then rested for a while before starting on capping the 2nd deck posts.

Once I began...

it didn't take so long.

(I had wanted to add a coating of waterproofing to all exposed wood this past summer...

as you can see how some of the last coating from the previous owners

had started wearing off...

but it will have to wait until next Spring).

Now...

the post on the left...

as you can see...

had drop offs on both sides of it.

What I did was to walk along one side while holding on to the railing with one hand...

while holding the items and tools with the other.

Once I reached parallel with the post...

I swung out one foot and caught the other side with it...

as I straddled over the stairway.

Applying the screws was a bit awkward as I had to hold the screw with one hand...

and the power drill in the other...

as I straddled the void.

It took me about 5x as long to secure the cap as with the other posts...

as the angle I had to hold the power drill with my hand was awkward...

but I finally got it done.

These three posts were the last ones to cap for all of my decks.

I had finished just in time...

as the temperature began to drop...

and the winds began to pick up.

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These stairs are to what I will be adding raised friction mats and waterproofing...

to keep me from slipping during icy conditions

(these are the ones I had slipped down all the way to the rocks below...

the last time the stairs were covered in ice).

So long as the weather holds out...

tomorrow morning, I will repair the water damaged wood

(my two part epoxy arrived today)...

and while those spots are curing...

I will start working on these stairs.

My reward after I finished for the day...

a large pot of peppermint tea.

I am sipping on my first mug of it right now...

and the effects of it is, both...

refreshing, and relaxing.

I am telling you...

you simply must try this peppermint tea.

It will soon become your hot beverage of choice.