The Back Patio- I should have known...

The back patio "leads" to the in ground pool.



The pool is at the bottom of a decaying set of blue stone stairs with a railing that has rotted out at the bottom.



Nicely painted with safety stripes. Missing a step is the least of your problems.  Cartoon characters have accidents like this not  humans...grab the railing to save yourself from falling down the faulty step the railing gives way. During your decent you will roll through poison ivy, then hit a chain link fence topped with barb wire. Men with combat training have been felled by this.



 Bucolic Jersey. The house is up the hill behind the trees. If you look closely you can see the clothes lines that were also located at the pool. Who did the laundry here contestants on Survivor?



Yes, it could all be fixed but it is far from the house and would require the demolition of the existing shed and a  new pool house to be built. The pool is 1' thick  concrete reinforced with 2" thick re-bar. The pool will be broken into 3" pieces have all the re bar pulled out them dumped back in and leveled.

The back patio is close to the house, has views of the city in the winter and is large. Larger than I thought when I started 30' x 22'.  Previously it was covered in chicken wire to keep the turkeys out of the basement, tree stumps, and embedded metal rods to line dry clothing, the house had no dryer. No dryer but, a heated pool. Everyone's priorities are different....

 Everything is conspiring against me. The weather, bad math, supply issues and no motivation. I should have known it was going to be a long haul following the bonding agent episode. Old concrete sucks the bonding agent up, the roller sucks the bonding agent up. One gallon appears  to cover one square foot. Grimy, sticky and annoyed I  grabbed the container and dumped it and walked off. If the stuff actually helps only time will tell. I can say for sure the stuff is sticky and impossible to get off skin. 

All that will get us to where we are going.

Here is the inspiration.











The paint selection.

Monitors show different colors. These are actually soothing shades of green not muddy beige.

Field Color

Bher Garden Lattice

Stencil Color

Bher Terrace View

The stencil

Palette Paint

The current status.

Tons of pollen. Three weeks left to get it done. It is go time.