I've been hard at work trying to maintain my commitment to deck maintenance discipline.  I don't want to just flush all of the hard prep work I did this past summer down the drain due to lack of upkeep.

So far this year I give myself an A on leaf …

As we close out the summer, I realize that if this summer was to have a theme for me it would be "the summer of the deck."

We had an ipe deck built for our 10th wedding anniversary present to ourselves.  That was 12 years ago.  "You can just let …