[Wayne 962]

A few more notes and thoughts:

- We're trying to keep the jacuzzi area open and operating. My pool guy tells me that this should be possible if we reconnect some of the plumbing to the filter, and install a heater (there's no heater there now). I'm going to make a mini removable deck that will fit over the hot tub area and cover it with the water still underneath. That's the plan anyways...

- The cost of materials so far is nearing about $4K and change. Estimates from deck builders would normally peg this project at about $20-$25K if there was a crew doing it. I expect that I'll spend about $8K on the materials when I'm all done. Just for reference, the 8x2x16s were about $16/$18 each (or about $400 per deck side so far). The redwood to cover one deck piece was about $700. Brackets, nails, supplies, etc, seem to keep adding up every time I visit the stores!

-Wayne