So, that's the salmon deck. The good news is that the stain went on easy and only took us about 2 hours. The bad news is the "wood took the stain funny" (according to the Sherwin Williams expert) and now our deck is pink. We went to SW and took a piece of wood to show them what had happened, and they agreed that the color was nothing like the "Mission Wall" we had picked out. So, they kept our wood sample and played around with some things. The next piece of bad news is that apparently we're going to have strip (not just sand) that color off to get a new color stain down. The good news is that SW is going to pay for all of that and refund our money from the stain. The bad news is that they aren't going to come do the work for us. The other piece of bad news is that we never finished powerwashing the railing and "the wall" last summer, and now we're in the middle of a huge drought, so we can't powerwash it now, which also means that we can't stain those parts now either.
Thus, if you come visit us, you'll probably see a salmon deck floor and unstained railings and wall!
In other news, I ran the Raleigh Half Marathon today and finished in 2:21.27, which was almost a personal record for me (my record being 2:20.46). I did, however, all-out run this one with no walk breaks. Not that there's anything wrong with using the Galloway method, I just wanted to prove to myself I could do it the old-fashioned way.
Finally, guess who carved which pumpkin:
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