The Summer Place

This weekend we erected our Summer Place:

It all started when Katy asked me if I thought a canopy would look good in the back yard. I thought she was talking about something like this:

I expressed the strong opinion that such a thing had no place in our back yard.

A few days later she showed me some pictures of the canopy we ended up buying. "Oh. That's different." We bought it on Friday and assembled it this weekend.

I think these are going to be hugely popular in my neighborhood. See, the CC&R's are pretty strict as to what kind of patio cover you can build, what it has to look like, etcetera. But since this isn't attached to structure I can pretty much do as I please. And who doesn't like doing what they please?