New deck stain! It looks wonderful!

This morning, after a rather restless night (serious leg cramps), I got up and had breakfast around 8 a.m. Since the weather was predicted to be nice today, we decided it was time to stain the deck.

Huge project! I worked steadily from about 9 a.m. until 2 p.m., and then wore out. My ankles were screaming, and my back was sore from being bent over to stain the spindles all around the railings of the deck. So, I headed into the house, took off my stained clothes, took off my splattered glasses, and used David's 'goop' to get the stain off of my face, out of my hair, and off of my bra (yes, the stain soaked through my t-shirt and got my bra all 'charcoal' colored...mostly just in one spot, but ugly nonetheless! 

The stain came off, and I used mineral spirits to get specks off of my glasses, which seem none the worse for the wear...

I even put the goop on my bra, and it looks like most of the stain came out. That goop is good stuff! This is oil-based stain and was very drippy. I even was able to get the stuff off of my old loafers that I was wearing. The t-shirt and jeans are probably going to become the 'paint outfit,' but that's okay.... I needed one of those anyway!

So, I quit working, and my very industrious husband just kept on (and is still out there now, and it's 7:30 p.m. He even had to go up and get another gallon of stain at Menard's in the midst of all of this...) 

I did fix him a sandwich and a glass of milk for lunch when I stopped working, but he hasn't come in yet for dinner. We like the charcoal color, and will enjoy the new 'look,' but what a job! Hope we don't have to do this again for several years. By then, maybe David will have caught up to me with aches and pains and will agree to hire someone to do it!

Once the deck gets dry, and I get my flowers out there, I'll take a photo and put it into this blog... I know I'm going to love it. But, tonight, I am feeling every fiber in my body, and they are all telling me that I'm really too old to be working that hard. 

That's probably one reason I like using my computer...nothing hurts afterward, unless it is my eyes when I stay up too late playing my games!

So, come on rain, we are ready for ya! 

Another day is done, and we did get a huge job completed...hooray!