Close Your Eyes and Pretend It's Summer

Okay, enough of this cold air,snow, sleet, black ice and other winter abominations.
I'd rather hang out with old pictures taken in warm sunshine.
Here is the deck shortly before I moved in.

And here it is three summers later

You can bet the farm that the giant saucer is gone; there is a lovely high private fence separating me from the neighbor's deck on the other side and there is table space to feed a dozen people at a time.
My kind of deck.
If I could just train the neighbors not to smoke it would be perfect.