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When you look at this project in finished form, there's no way to see the months of struggle or the overall level of difficulty that went into its creation. You don't see the fact, for example, that we discovered while excavating the courtyard that the house itself was in imminent danger of collapsing.  You don't see that the narrow access way buckled when we first started working, or the ugly trauma of the broken septic tank.  You can't see the continuous changes in thought, direction and design that went into the deck, or the tremendous time and effort required to make the