On the deck
October 18th 2008 03:58
Watched the movie, Lars and the Real Girl last night at a friend' s house, along with some other blokes who form the Men's Movie Night group at our church. I'm not sure that the blokes appreciated the movie much, although I enjoyed it. You can see my comments on my other blog (link above).
Before we started the movie, we went out on the deck at the back of the house to watch while mine host and one of the other guys inspected an extremely tall tree that's growing in the garden, with a view to trimming it back considerably at some stage. I hadn't been out the back of the house before, and the deck turned out to be several metres above the ground. The section drops so sharply under the house that while you go in almost at street level, the garden is in a gully, as though there'd once been a river running through it.
The garden is filled with several trees, all of them of considerable height. However, when you stand on the deck you're almost on a level with the top of them. Strange feeling being so high when you don't expect it.
Unlike some decks or patios, there isn't any patio furniture (nor, consequently, any patio furniture covers); the deck is fairly bare. It runs along the full length of the back of the house, and would have been ideal as an additional sunroom. The owner said that when they had it built on there were only two of them living there. A late blooming child added another to the family but even she doesn't take up a lot of room (!). I guess the deck gets the afternoon and evening sun fully.
Before we started the movie, we went out on the deck at the back of the house to watch while mine host and one of the other guys inspected an extremely tall tree that's growing in the garden, with a view to trimming it back considerably at some stage. I hadn't been out the back of the house before, and the deck turned out to be several metres above the ground. The section drops so sharply under the house that while you go in almost at street level, the garden is in a gully, as though there'd once been a river running through it.
The garden is filled with several trees, all of them of considerable height. However, when you stand on the deck you're almost on a level with the top of them. Strange feeling being so high when you don't expect it.
Unlike some decks or patios, there isn't any patio furniture (nor, consequently, any patio furniture covers); the deck is fairly bare. It runs along the full length of the back of the house, and would have been ideal as an additional sunroom. The owner said that when they had it built on there were only two of them living there. A late blooming child added another to the family but even she doesn't take up a lot of room (!). I guess the deck gets the afternoon and evening sun fully.
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