Buckled down

Once I got home after work and running a few errands, I buckled down and got to work on the B&W quilt. Guess what? All the quilting is done! I appreciated everyone's comments about the binding and I will be going with the striped fabric.  You know what I will be doing tonight after work!

I finally remembered to take a picture of the deck so you could see what my neighbor and I did the other evening. The two board left were not in the weather as much because the soffit covered them a bit so the nails are still intact. With the other boards the nails (which are not the correct fasteners to used for a deck!) were all rusted away except for the ones at the ends. I think what I will do is get the circular saw and cut the deck boards where I can reach and then just start knocking down the joists. Here is the picture of where I was and where the deck is now.

I have been taking this slowly and thinking thru each step of how to take this deck apart safely. I do need to spend some time cutting up the rotten deck boards to put in the trash bin. That is a job for when it is cooler outside.  The joists are in decent shape so I plan on saving those and hopefully they can be reused for the lower platform deck to come out of the garage door.