deck stuffs and more gardening whatnot

So my birthday was Saturday.  We did it up: went horseback riding, then had a party.  Our friend Rob made frog legs, alligator steaks, and crawfish in addition to collard greens, black eye peas, and beer and cheese soup.  All of it was delicious, and he matches our kitchen:

At any rate, we got a late wedding gift/birthday present of a $300 gift card to Home Depot.  We spent it in one day.  Sunday, we picked up vinyl (for the office), paint (for the office and lower bathroom), paint supplies, deck restore stuff, a hot pepper upside-down planter, four hot pepper plants, and two tomato plants.  I got the tomatoes in planters (a Mr. Stripey and a Black Prince) and the upside-down pepper thing up (with two tabasco and two habanero) on Monday.  The black prince and one habanero aren't doing too well, but we're trying to look on the bright side.

We got the deck done, though.  We stained the trim with the same stain we used on the picnic table and put the deck restore stuff down.  This stuff is awesome, it hardened and created an interesting texture, but it rained last night and it held up to that (after we put it on about 8 hours prior).

Here's the finished product, thanks to Zulu for modeling:

Today, we painted the bathroom (Morgan is finishing up at the moment, pictures to follow).  Tomorrow, we're going to paint the office, then Friday we're going to lay vinyl in the office.  Feeling good about this week.