Saturday, March 7, 2015

Outdoor Living and Lifestyle

Yesterday a big storm blew through Tucson with rains and high winds. For over a year now we have been enjoying the comforts of an outdoor seating area that is rather like an elaborate tent. It has really been so comfortable and pleasant that you can’t imagine what a wonderful addition to our lifestyle this has been. But the winds yesterday are the worst we have experienced since we erected the summer house in our back yard.

Unfortunately the structure now sits on a different place on our patio and is little more than a crumpled mass of twisted steel and torn canvas. (See picture) I’m sharing this with you so you can learn from our mistakes.

I doubt that it could be salvaged and, although it was not a terribly expensive item to purchase (we got it on sale for about $300), I would do things differently now than I did when we first put it up.