After months under cover, the back porch has re-emerged. Like many tropical woods, Ipe is not normally kiln dried, so it tends to shrink a bit, thus the gaps between boards.

Getting ready to install the hood. There's not quite enough room in the soffit to make the turn and route the duct out the wall, so it will have to go up into the ceiling a bit.

Most of our kitchen appliances will arrive next week, but Mike stopped by and picked up the hood early so they could build out the soffit it attaches to.