Building a Deck for Some New Parents 

So all the cedar I've been chainsaw milling lately has been building up to this project: a baby-warming deck. Some of my best friends in the world just had their first baby. I don't know the first thing about babies, but I do know how to build things. So while everyone else gave them diapers and formula and parenting advice, I strapped on my toolbelt and made some sawdust.
They've been wanting a nice deck on the back of their house for some time, but with child-rearing duties and expenses on the horizon it just wasn't in the cards. Luckily, when you start from trees, decks are remarkably affordable. So they got a beautiful new entertaining space in their back yard and a little bit of extra home equity and I got a fun project to keep me out of trouble for a little while. Win-win!