Well, now more about the prior post. First, our plan for last Saturday had been to stain the concrete on the front porch. So, off to Home Depot to buy stain, only to find out that first the concrete needs to be etched. With acid. Since I have not handled acid since high school, and then with spotty results, it seemed to me (and Lisa agreed) that we needed to leave that project to the professionals. So, on to next projects: (a) replace back light with a new one we had ordered and promptly stored away about 2 months ago, and (b) build a new cover for our grill since the old one was hanging on by bare threads. So, that is what occasioned the two photos.
Anyway, for the new grill cover, we tried to find a perfect fabric, but were running out of ideas. Ultimately, we decided on duck - a canvas-type material which, as I recall, us commonly used as sail covers and boat covers. Surely that would work, right? So we bought our 8 1/2 yards of fabric, used the old cover (which we carefully took apart) as a template, and 3-4 hours later had the finished product posted earlier.
All went well, then, until it started raining last night and kept raining. Guess what? Duck SHRINKS!! Hence the new photos of our now over-taught, and far too short grill cover. Back to the drawing (or cutting) table, I guess.
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