Deck deconstructed (or pre-constructed), beginning of day one:
View of the deck-in-progress from the sliding glass doors, end of day one:
View from the driveway, end of day one:
OK, it doesn't look like that much happened the first day. Putting in the piece under the door that will help attach the deck to the house takes a while. They also cut a fair amount of wood during the day for later in the week. I expected the posts would be installed first, but they said the post installation is a day two job.