Keep up the good work .. and keep the pics coming .. Anxious to see the finished product.
Well, I don't yet have a finished project--thanks partly to a bum knee that has been acting up. But we have made a little progress. With help from my friend, Bill, we finished installing the outside stringers. The pond is about six inches above full pool after another four inches of rain in the last 24 hours.

This image shows four of the deck boards.

And this shows a close-up of the attachments of the stringers. The inner stringers are supported by joist hangers, and the outer stringers are supported by angle brackets and structural screws.

We did have a right pretty sunset the other day.

If the knee keeps improving, maybe we can finish the decking next week and then start on the gazebo itself.