What were we thinking!

With Sean's new schedule, he now gets a three-day "weekend". We decided to take this weekend and do some work in the backyard. Our original plan was to remove some rocks and tear up our overgrown garden. Somehow our project changed to removing our gazebo. We loved our gazebo but unfortunately it was leaning to the right, the wood was buckling and we were afraid of it coming down on its own. The project took two days, eighteen hours and three dump runs! Nate was such a trooper through it all! Here are some pictures, I took video of it falling down and will post it later.


Nate and his hard hat.



The dilapidated gazebo.

Sean on the roof taking off shingles. He HATED this! Our original plan was to remove the structure in portions. After 30 minutes on the roof, the plan changed to destruction. We cut breaks in the support beams and let it fall!

I think we did a fabulous job bringing it down. It fell exactly where we planned for it to go. Not bad for two people with no engineering background!

Dismantling it. This took forever!

The new "patio". We decided to keep the deck and use it for our table and fire pit.

Sean, you did a great job! Thank you!