After a bunch of hammering with a pry bar, and termite carnage everywhere, I finally got the thing off. Tomorrow I'll go by a replacement board.
I also got to play with a new tool today. I bought a router so I could put a bullnose bevel on the decorative boards on the front porch. The guy at the lumber yard told me the deck boards would look a lot better if I put a 1/8 bullnose on the horizontal boards when they meet up to the vertical ones. I determined I could pay someone to put the bullnose on the boards but in the grander scheme of things, it might be cheaper for me to buy the tool than do it myself.
Turns out you can do a lot of cool things with a router. I carved a channel into the back side of one of the boards going on the post and plan to use it to hide the low voltage wire that will travel up the post to a couple of lights from the conduit I installed earlier. See below for the bullnose I made as well as the notch.
Before all of that, I took a trip to Home Depot to purchase the wood for the fascia. I also purchased some brackets to support the fascia and bought some new paint that matches the existing trim on our house.
Once I got home, I sanded down the boards and Michelle painted primer on all of them. They look pretty good!
I ended the day enjoying the view on our back patio.
