01/21/2026
My husband spent three months building this deck around our pool, and I'm just now realizing he created the world's most expensive co****le board.
When we moved into this house last year, the backyard was a disaster. The previous owners had let everything go, and we had this beautiful pool surrounded by cracked concrete and dead grass. My husband, bless his heart, decided he was going to build us the deck of our dreams.
He watched every tutorial, read every forum post, and even found some incredible free deck-building guides in the DIY community on the Tedooo app. The community there was so lovely and supportive, answering his questions at all hours and cheering him on through every mistake.
Three months, countless trips to Home Depot, and several choice words later, we had this gorgeous deck. I was so proud of him. Then yesterday, our neighbor's kid threw a ball and it landed perfectly in that hole. That's when it hit me.
My husband accidentally built a giant co****le board around our pool.
Now the kids in the neighborhood have discovered it, and they're having competitions to see who can land stuff in the hole from the other end of the deck. I ordered a custom scoreboard from a woodworker on Tedooo because apparently we're leaning into this.
My husband keeps insisting it's a ""drainage feature,"" but I caught him practicing his co****le toss this morning when he thought I wasn't looking.
Sometimes the best projects are the ones you never intended to make.
