I'm Just Going to Stain the Deck

When perusing the treasures found at the Spokane Valley Veteran’s Thrift Store, I discovered quite a few cans of Cabot’s Australian Oil stain. Fifteen dollars for a gallon of stain that normally costs sixty or more seemed like a great deal. Our deck needed to be stained about three years ago and still hasn’t seen one ounce of the good stuff. It looked pretty rough. I bought six gallons of stain with the intent of finally getting to it.

Proud of my purchase and feeling ambitious, I planned to stain the deck the next week. The new stain color was pretty much the same as what was used before, so...