After the hot tub was removed,
we were then left with a deck with a 64-square-foot hole in the middle of
it. Grace wanted the entire deck
taken out. Eddie LeBow, a former
contractor and helper for all seasons (he took the snake out of the house, an
adventure to be related in a few pages), said that removing the deck would mean
that we’d be sitting so low to the ground that we could no longer enjoy
watching the sunsets. I agreed
with him, perhaps because of my tendency never to throw anything away. At least that was what Grace suspected.
It was one of the rare times
when Grace needed a demonstration to prove a point. I put chairs in the hole that formerly held the hot
tub. We sat in them and, sure enough,
the coyote fence obscured most of the view, but especially the sun as it
set. Since sunsets are one of the
perpetually enchanting events in the Land of Enchantment, Grace quickly agreed
to hire Eddie to replace the boards and eliminate the hole in the deck.
Today, the deck is painted a
pale yellow and has a glass-topped table and four chairs, which we bought while
shopping at a local super market.
It was the last set that they had, we quickly agreed that it would be
perfect on the refurbished deck and the manager of the store suggested that it
would be easy for her to deliver the set to us. Call the table-and-chair set “tchotchkies from the
produce section.”
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