Something there is that doesn't like (permanence)
or any semblance of it.......................
with a nod to Robert Frost
Oh yes, we’ve assembled many a thing with nails and screws, even with oxyacetylene welding - at 6000 degrees F - to make them last. But under it all we’ve always had a thing for configurations that can be quickly taken apart. Folding tables, telescopes, umbrellas, tents, stuff that can be made smaller or made to disappear at will.
It is even more-so now. Could it be that we are aging and see remaining life as a camping trip? All trappings to be easily folded and put away when the time comes?
We thought about that when it came time to assembling a wire trellis framework up on the deck, which on our old house in the raccoon district is merely a 2nd floor rug-shaking porch, only slightly bigger. It is not a DECK deck in the 21st century sense of the word. This is 1914 vintage deckery.
How would I build this framework?
It would be simplest to nail or screw these boards to the existing deck members, but my mind came coming back to someone eventually taking it down, and how much easier it would be if I just used C-clamps. So I did. Let the gourds grow all over that.
And, let the coons say Amen.
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