Our patio has been the crime scene of much merry-making over the years and was deservedly known in various dubious circles as the "party patio". The party patio is no more. Today we come together to remember and to celebrate the life of this cold slab of concrete and exposed aggregate.
Party patio, you did not go easily. They had to first remove your pergola, board by board. Then they cut down and dug out your pretty vegetation and capped your irrigation pipes. When they started chopping out your brick steps, well I just couldn't take it any more and had to leave. Then the saws started.. YIKES, it was horrible! They hauled you out of here in hundreds of broken pieces.
Your life was dedicated to much enjoyment of young and old. It was not a life without travails though. There have been many spilled beverages, broken glass, not to mention the expurgation of various gastro-intestinal fluids onto your surface. You were constantly exposed to the elements; the searing sun, the driving rain and the pelting of baseball-sized hail stones. But you looked really nice in a thick blanket of snow.
Through all of that, you persevered to share many the many good times. Birthday celebrations, graduation celebrations, Halloween celebrations, New Years celebration, cookouts and parties just to party. And the numerous games of beer pong.
Oh, the stories you could tell.
So long our dear friend. Your spirit will live on in the new sunroom where the celebrations will continue without regard to heat, cold, rain or snow. Some day it just might live up to the high standards of partying you set. And we will raise our glasses in a toast to remember the good times spent with you.
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