It started out as a pumphouse. The little shed closest to the road houses the pump that we use for irrigation. From there the little deck sprouted out the front as a covered fishing/feeding/drinking beer platform/john boat dock. Then we took it down the bank a ways because the little pumphouse platform was so popular and put some tables and chairs out there with a trellis. Problem with our john boat dock was that water running off the roof in a hard rain would fill the john boat to the brim if we weren't careful. So we got the backhoe out, reamed four pieces of 12 inch PVC into the gound, cleaned them out with a post hole digger, filled them with concrete, dug out the middle between the four 'piers' and built us a hip roofed boathouse anchored to those piers. A good friend of mine is one hell of a carpeneter, he and I built it.