Here's the final product.
Now on to the next project - sod.
The deck is complete! Well, almost. Initially we had thought we wouldn't do any railings since it's below 24", but Julene thinks that railings are needed. And the stairs. But let's not let the detract from the major project of the weekend. The cement pyles were done last Saturday and the rest was done yesterday. The hardest part was getting everything framed up square and level. The beam took a bit of work - I had to chisel away the top of the one pyle since the beam was going to be resting right on it. Once everything was framed up, the rest was easy.
We find ourselves in April with fresh snow on the ground. This past weekend, we received ~20cm of snow. This allowed Abby and I to go outside and make the snowman she had wanted to make all winter but for some reason we hadn't been able to up till now. I must say that it turned out pretty good. The neighbor girl helped out too, procuring gummies for eyes and goldfish snacks for buttons. We'll see how long he lasts against the sun.
In other news, we are hoping to start developing our basement shortly. I just picked up all the required permits this morning so that we can proceed legally and keep everything above board. Some say it's not worth it, but it will be when it comes time to sell.
We have enough friends and family that can help with each of the trades, at the least to provide guidance. We already owe most of them favors, so this will put us doubly in their debt. Hopefully, I have some skills that I can provide for repayment.
I've been copying a lot of Ubuntu VMs around lately andam always annoyed to find that after copying, the new VM network setup is broken. After searching on and off for quite a while I discovered a solution. In /etc/udev/rules.d/ you will see a file named xx-persistent-net.rules This file keeps track of what network devices get what name -in most cases, eth0. If you delete this file on the newly created machine, it will reset your network devices and rebuild this file.
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