his expression tells the whole story
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He must be a Princess Donut fan.
If you dont know who she is, check out the “Dungeon crawler Carl” series by Matt Dinneman (sp?)
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Max is handling our lack of air conditioning well. And by well I mean he yells at me all day and periodically kicks things off my desk.
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Beautiful.
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He looks so adorable! 
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Fantastic 
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Lots of smoke from the wildfires and not much rain in months. These guys know the drill to keeping cool though.
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Beautiful pups.
Really fine deck, too. Is that your work?
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It is @MikeC I’m lucky that we have a great community mill a few hours away that sells top notch fir / cedar etc
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That’s gorgeous. Kudos on such fantastic craftsmanship!
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I hesitate to think what that would cost if you were to contract it out. Amazing work.
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My hourly rate is pretty reasonable @howard but I’m really slow 
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I also built a concrete retaining wall @howard and framed a whole new deck from scratch to double the area (The old one was toast). So overall cost? A boatload. But I’m currently sitting on it reading a book and it’s lovely.
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I’m thinking that you could garner many followers on YouTube with the series “@Barney Builds A Deck (with His Dogs)”. I’d watch.
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Wow, I looks like you have a blue metal roof! I just had to get a new roof two months ago because a 16 year old shingle roof in Florida is too old for insurance no matter the condition. We went with a premium metal roof because of the warranty and not having to replace it in 12 to 15 years. We picked Pacific blue. There are close to zero other houses around here with blue roofs!
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Being up in mountains and all, I’m gonna guess the metal roof has more to do with snow load. We looked at places up in the front range when we were buying and most of the houses had them.
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@faydout is on the money. A lot of older houses (ours was built by the gold miners in 1903) were built before manufacturered roof trusses were a thing.
So rather than overloading the old rafters. Metal roofs allow the snow to build up to a few inches and then slide off.
So no additional load on the roof. New builds in Canada will conform to the snow load calculations in the back of part 9 of the building code. So you could get away with asphalt shingles. Different parts of the country have specific snow loads.
The workshop roof is modern with shingles and the snow sticks to it and stacks up. Sometimes I have to shovel it all off when it gets above 3-4 feet. Do the math on 500sqft of wet snow x 4 feet and that’s a boatload of weight.
I’m guessing snow load isn’t a concern for our mutual friend @Tommydogg
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