Please tell me which of these you like the most

[Consider]

I'm convinced you aren't going to say... you're all too polite to say which ones you don't like...

and too shy... :?: to say which you do like...

so, I'm erasing...

:idea: ... ... :?: ... ... :idea: ... :?: ...

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[Malaki86]

Is this some kind of secret Al Quaida code ???

[Roadhog]

Something just doesn't feel right :?
I wonder if it is more like a PBS code for
Underground Resistance Infiltrators here
to put their propaganda agenda in motion ..."Midterm Election Indecision 2006."

... :? or..she is into Recycling. Wasn't this Wot's Idea?

P.B.S.There are no "shy or too polite" Trucker's.
That is squib hogwash......
The Hog knows.


(Considerus Contemplatius)

[Consider]

Ah.... no.

I posted a link to pictures of my deck and the wall behind it with different shutters on the window. (I cut out pictures of shutters and then put them on the picture of the wall.)

I can look at the statistics for the different pages of my site, and I saw that people were looking at the topic, but not at the page, so I decided that I should remove the link...

Plus, at first I was soooo eager to see which one people liked the looks of the most that I kept checking the topic... rather than waiting for a notification... So once I deleted the link I could relax because I knew I wasn't missing anything.

On the other hand, I really would like to know how these look to other people.

http://www.health-boundaries-bite.com/Deck.html

[Consider]

Something just doesn't feel right :?
I wonder if it is more like a PBS code for
Underground Resistance Infiltrators here
to put their propaganda agenda in motion ..."Midterm Election Indecision 2006."

... :? or..she is into Recycling. Wasn't this Wot's Idea?

P.B.S.There are no "shy or too polite" Trucker's.
That is squib hogwash......
The Hog knows.


(Considerus Contemplatius)

Hi

Okay, I've got to tell you this... See, I love your cartoons.

But I didn't see the bottom one, the contemplating one, until after I used the quote function and saw that you had an image. I couldn't remember seeing the image so I went back and looked to see if it really showed, and it did.

This is a good example of how brain damage, slowing of the processing speed and reduction of the working memory work.. I don't see things the way I used to. Things are in front of my eyes and I don't "see" them in terms of the image having meaning in my mind.

What's important about that is that stress can lead to low B12 and once B12 is low there is gradual nerve damage... to include cognitive dysfunction. It's very slow though. So it's easy to sort of attribute it to something normal and of no harm. But really, once it has been getting worse over several years, it changes ones life. A richness that was there when more was able to be seen, is gone. So I really want you all to check your fingernails for any signs of low B12. It may seem ridiculous, but if you take B12 (Methylcobalamin) if you have symptoms of low B12, you will so dramatically improve the years of your life to come that... that it will almost be like adding youth to those years.



Now, what was I going to say before I noticed the [img]????

[Roadhog]

I've never been afraid of B's.

As to your remodeling inwhich you ask us to, shudder to think........
I like the first example...Blue Green.
Your deck boards will fade to silver/gray like the old ones and you'll want to brighten things up from that base color.
With the Blue Green color...you can leave the post as it is, but I'd recommend painting it with the same shudder color.

I can only go by the narrow view I see...I don't know the scheme of the rest of the house or area. (roof, gutters, trim, flower boxes, doors, etc.)

It would have been nice to see a trimboard dressing the bottom under the deck boards, and then you could forget placing plants to trim that. Be allot less maintenance. I know as I grow older...I seek less yard work.

Another simple thought. I always place varmit screening to prevent critters from taking up residence under the deck. May God be with you, if a Skunk favors this lovely new CritterCondo.

This is all still a passion of mine. I was a Residential Builder for 28 years.

[Rev.Vassago]

Sage Green or Dusty Darker Green.


Definately not the Blue Green.

Nice deck, BTW - is that Cedar?

And I would lose that blue post - paint it a neutral color.

[Roadhog]

Hey Rev....



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..at least we agree on the Green. :?

[wot i life]

I See in black and white......

[Consider]

I've never been afraid of B's.

As to your remodeling inwhich you ask us to, shudder to think........
I like the first example...Blue Green.
Your deck boards will fade to silver/gray like the old ones and you'll want to brighten things up from that base color.
With the Blue Green color...you can leave the post as it is, but I'd recommend painting it with the same shudder color.

I can only go by the narrow view I see...I don't know the scheme of the rest of the house or area. (roof, gutters, trim, flower boxes, doors, etc.)

It would have been nice to see a trimboard dressing the bottom under the deck boards, and then you could forget placing plants to trim that. Be allot less maintenance. I know as I grow older...I seek less yard work.

Another simple thought. I always place varmit screening to prevent critters from taking up residence under the deck. May God be with you, if a Skunk favors this lovely new CritterCondo.

This is all still a passion of mine. I was a Residential Builder for 28 years.

Wow, I just read that you were a builder!!!!! I should have asked you along the way. I just could not work some things out. (like how long it should take to do things...)

I hired 5 different fellows to do the work ... one took 45 minutes to find screws at Lowe's ... and was fixated with them and wouldn't move on...

Another took three days to remove half of the old deck and sweep and put down 7 boards. I paid him $476 for that, and then the 7 boards had to be taken back up... he didn't put any of the foundation work in further along.

Then I hired a man who sounded great. He was $60 an hour for him and his illegal helper...

But he didn't drive the screws in far enough, so after the deck was sanded and it rained there were these black marks all over...



When I look at the finished deck, or getting closer to finished deck, I see how neat it looks and I'm glad I stuck with it.

[Consider]

I've never been afraid of B's.

As to your remodeling inwhich you ask us to, shudder to think........
I like the first example...Blue Green.
Your deck boards will fade to silver/gray like the old ones and you'll want to brighten things up from that base color.
With the Blue Green color...you can leave the post as it is, but I'd recommend painting it with the same shudder color.

I can only go by the narrow view I see...I don't know the scheme of the rest of the house or area. (roof, gutters, trim, flower boxes, doors, etc.)

It would have been nice to see a trimboard dressing the bottom under the deck boards, and then you could forget placing plants to trim that. Be allot less maintenance. I know as I grow older...I seek less yard work.

Another simple thought. I always place varmit screening to prevent critters from taking up residence under the deck. May God be with you, if a Skunk favors this lovely new CritterCondo.

This is all still a passion of mine. I was a Residential Builder for 28 years.

Oh, darn it. I had an answer to you that I lost when I tried to add a bit about your being a builder.

I wanted to tell you that I thought your choice, the blue green, was the most arty. I love it. And I hadn't seen how that color works better with the post, the blue post.

I also had told you, in the lost post, that when the old deck was removed you could see that something was living under the house... there were pears lined up... and slightly gnawed.

At first I was going to get a trap... but then I saw a squirrel in the yard (never saw one here before) and I read on the net that ground squirrels live in the ground. In Wisconsin, where I'm from, squirrels live in trees.)

I love squirrels, so I had the builders be careful of the hole, to not stop it up at all.

The skunk thing is a little worrying, since during the summer when the windows are open I can smell them at night...

But my house is about the height of a house higher than the house in front of mine, and there's a fence all the way around, so I don't think skunks are going to do the climbing to get in here, when there are probably just as good places that aren't so difficult to approach.

Thank you SO much for your post. I really appreciate your help!!!!!

[Consider]

Sage Green or Dusty Darker Green.


Definately not the Blue Green.

Nice deck, BTW - is that Cedar?

And I would lose that blue post - paint it a neutral color.

Hi,

Thank you for giving me the benefit of your vision!!!!

I think the sage green works well with the natural colors in this area... and I love that dusty darker green.

The deck is redwood. I got red wood because it won't rot like the old wood. I could so easily have broken my foot or ankle or even my leg or hip if the rotted boards had broken. I had no idea they were so thin in places. So, when I considered what it would cost to break a bone, I thought I'd spend more and get a sturdier, longer lasting wood.

I'm glad you like the way it looks.

[Consider]

Hey Rev....



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..at least we agree on the Green. :?

lol

Not everyone has an artist's eye!

[Consider]

I See in black and white......

Ah.... well...

Which raises the question... I wonder if the most attractive gray to you, would coincide with the most attractive green, were you able to see the matching colors....

?????????????

[Consider]

I was so hoping more people would give me their impressions...

Please?

[mrpersons]

Hmmmmm. Perhaps someone has been smokin a little to much vitamin b12?

Havin a little trouble relating this thead(s) to trucking!

[Consider]

aesthetics?

I was wondering how truck driver aesthetics worked.

So far, so good.

[vavega]

the truck's parked right around the corner :P

i like the sage green shutters, that colour is muted like the base colour of the house. i'd brighten it up with window boxes planted with marigolds, something purple and trailing ivy.

and as much as you might like squirrels, they're rodents and gnaw/eat insulation and would think nothing of moving in your walls or attic for the winter. try waking up at 2am to the sound of a couple of them having a late night argument in your ceiling and you'll be getting out the screening real quick. :shock:

[Consider]

the truck's parked right around the corner :P

i like the sage green shutters, that colour is muted like the base colour of the house. i'd brighten it up with window boxes planted with marigolds, something purple and trailing ivy.

and as much as you might like squirrels, they're rodents and gnaw/eat insulation and would think nothing of moving in your walls or attic for the winter. try waking up at 2am to the sound of a couple of them having a late night argument in your ceiling and you'll be getting out the screening real quick. :shock:

Oh, thank you so much.

I was thinking about window boxes... but then I thought I'd get some more of the big pots and set them under the window... (I think they will hold water better, too.)

And, I've been looking at purple flowers.

Thank you!!!!!!!

So Much!!!!!

the squirrels, on the other hand...

I was so worried that the squirrel wasn't going to come back... It hadn't eaten any of the pear I put under the deck so it would know it was welcome.... But, tonight there was a partially gnawed pear on the edge of the deck. So I think it put it there. I'm really very happy about it.

I think maybe New Mexico homes are different.

I remember noises in the walls when I was a kid living in a frame house in Wisconsin.

I had a mouse when I lived in London... I'd filled the cracks in the floor with paper mache... and the mouse loved it...

Everyone said I didn't have "a mouse," but one night I caught it in a big candy jar, they have mammoth candy jars there, or did, and there were no mouse noises while it was in the jar. I was also sort of amazed at how it almost seemed to hang by its tail some of the time... I think it escaped. I can't remember letting it free. And I know it didn't stay in the jar...

Which of course reminds me of bubonic and fleas...

did you happen to see the program on climate or volcanoes... I forget which. But it talked about a volcano that major errupted -- this is centuries and centuries ago... maybe 1400 years ago... though I'm bad at math.

It turns out that the dust from the volcanic erruption was so fine that it stayed in the air for a year... or longer, and that led to cooling because it cut out sun light... there were a few written accounts of the sunlight being pale for a year...

Well, when it's cold, a flea that has the bubonic bacteria in it gets a sort of... I forget, but a little blockage... and that keeps the flea from getting nutrition no matter how much it eats, so it's always hungry and bites a lot lot more because it's starving....

Soooo. I wish we'd use some of our scientific knowledge to develope a BIG FAN we could use from space, if Yellowstone were to blow... Apparently Yellowstone is a super volcano... but actually, I'm not sure I remember that right. The rest of it is pretty accurate.

Well, thank you SOOOOO much.

(the connection to the color of the house is really good to notice, I hadn't seen it.)

[Consider]

Sage Green or Dusty Darker Green.


Definately not the Blue Green.

Nice deck, BTW - is that Cedar?

And I would lose that blue post - paint it a neutral color.

You know what, I have been thinking about you and your message all day.

I wasn't supposed to get redwood, was I? I bet it's the kind of wood that people who are really aware of things like that try to protect.

When I got it, I was thinking about this picnic table we had when I was a kid... it was cheap from Sears... and the wood was so lasting, so sturdy, to impervious to the weather.

But as soon as I read your message I realized I should have gotten cedar.

Thank you... I sure wish I'd thought this out more clearly before I got redwood.

Thank you again for your enlightening message.