Definition of weather
Definition of wether
Definition of whether
- decide whether he should agree or raise objections
- wonderedwhether to stay
; (3) alternative conditions or possibilities
- see me no more, whether he be dead or no
- —William Shakespeare
- seated him next to her whether by accident or design
- they’ve only been married a very few weeks, whether or no
- —Thomas Hardy
Based on the above three words, the weather has been making it unsure whether we would finish staining the deck anytime soon. Thankfully, no wether was involved in the process.
The weather cooled down on Wednesday, so I sprinted through the second half of staining the second coat of red stain on the vertical boards, and then did a full first coat of clear stain on the horizontal boards.
Thursday the forecast called for cloudy skies, with rain starting around 4 p.m. So I got up and from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. put on the second coat of clear stain. The rain started at 9 a.m. Now it was whether the rain would wash that second coat off or not. The stain was supposed to be resistent to rain after 4 hours, not 30 minutes.
Yet most of it stayed, enough that I mopped up the puddles Friday morning, let them dry, and had a third coat on by noon.
We had the deck furniture back out on the deck by 4 p.m., and at 7:30 p.m. began staining the underside (the people I talked to said you don’t do the underside, but the instructions on the stain can say, in small print, “for optimum performance, coat all accessible sides,” so I am going to follow my original gut to do the underside, since the stain company agrees with me.). At 8 p.m., after completing the underside of the one set of stairs, we started down the main deck.
I got about 5 feet along the first spacing between support braces, when I ran into something i couldn’t see, and a wasp flew by. I instantly backed up and called for Nathan to do the same. It took us awhile to locate it, but there were about four wasps helping us locate the nest. We extricated our supplies, since the wasps were not interested in us, yet, and planned to come back after dark.
So the wasps determined whether or not we got much of the underside done. But we did spray that nest, and checked the rest of the deck to assure there weren’t any others. The decks, and stairs, have been especially appealing to wasps this year.
So weather determined the timing and whether we got the deck staining complete. We have completed all necessary for immediate use and enjoyment, but whether we get the underside done anytime soon, to assure the longterm health of the deck, remains to be seen. Saturday is work, and over 95 degrees forecast.
At The Rainbow 