Burningman 2002: Water Tower: the Deck
[medium] [BIG]	Bring the little tower out to the yard-maybe if I plant it a big one will grow?
[medium] [BIG]	Another 'before' view. Note a couple of the foot diameter cement foundations I sunk earlier.
[medium] [BIG]	The tower and the deck it inspired are my excuse for doing something I've wanted to do for a while: get rid of the grass in the backyard. (Round-Up not a lack of watering caused it to be so brown.)
[medium] [BIG]	Another desire for a while has been to have a little 'zen garden' to play in when I get out of my daily cubicle. Figured it was easier to put the gravel down before I stared getting to crazy building the deck.
[medium] [BIG]	The base is nearly done.
[medium] [BIG]	A bit hard to see, but the ends of the deck a cantilevered a couple feet out away from the foundations.
[medium] [BIG]	Slap a coat of stain on the base before the decking.
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[medium] [BIG]	The decking is added.
[medium] [BIG]	Home stretch in sight!
[medium] [BIG]	I'd normally use pencils or some other conveniently sized spacers for the deck boards, but I had to fit the bords into some pretty specific sized spaces. Using a bunch of cedar shims made relatively even spacing possible.
[medium] [BIG]	Ta-Da!
[medium] [BIG]	Now I have a place to build the tower!