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Here's an update following a long holiday weekend. 

My 50 square meters of pressure-treated lumber arrived on Wednesday of last week. I still had a lot of prep work to do so I decided to furnish the stack of lumber in the meantime:

I thought it added a nice little touch to the front yard and the kids liked being there rather than "helping" me. 

Anyway, I removed all the old railing posts and cut new ones. They were a bit of a challenge to get all of the levels right, height correct and all in a line straight line. I used some metal brackets to hold the 4x4 posts up as well as some screws/nails at various strategic locations. They are all solid and plumb now.

I also leveled off and fastened the crossbeams up to the new portion of the deck where the floor will be screwed on. I also built a step to go up to the new section of the deck while I still had relatively easy access to all the supporting "guts" of the deck (no photo of this process since it was raining). 

I decided during the step making process that I would "frame" the entire deck for not only aesthetic presentation, but also to allow me to square off the deck a little (you can see in the picture above where the railing has been fitted into the notched out portions of the framed floor).

After the framing was sorted to where I was happy, I cut off the extra portions of the beams and screwed together what I could. 

Yesterday I began putting some decking down as well as covered the step.

So this, along with the photo above is where I stand as of now.

I doubt I'll do anything today since it's raining and I can use a day off from all of it.

(By the way, where the step ends at the far end is where I will build the 1/4 round stone fireplace/bbq pit down the line.)