Here we go again, the start of another day!  I hope this one is as productive as the rest have been since the arrival of my parents.  They are going to want to leave soon, so they can have a rest.  I have been working them so hard!

  Today, the sanding crew, me included, will be out in full force.  Prepping, so Susan can follow up behind us to do the painting.  Hopefully this will go without incident, and we will finish early.  Then Dad and I can swing by the local lumber yard, pick up the fence boards.  I need to raise the fence height for the two sections along the deck.  I must bring the top edge of the fence along the deck (railing height) to code.  Then tomorrow, all we have to do is take off the old boards with the drill, and reattach the new ones.  All the other prep work, Susan and I managed to get done in the early spring.
  So that should leave a lazy late afternoon and evening, unless everyone want's to run into the big city to Derek's, to pick up the cut off saw.  Just in case we might need it tomorrow, to trim some fence boards.  It would be much easier to use the cutoff saw, than using the skill saw.  At least I think so!  Besides I am going to need the cut off saw for the finishing trim work later this winter anyways, and Derek could have a quick visit with his grandparents.
  As you can see a lot is getting accomplished, and by the end of today there will be a lot of items checked off of our must do list.  A lot of this credit is do to the help from my Dad and Mom, helping run me around while Susan was at work.  Giving Susan a much needed break, so she could have a bit of a break.  Otherwise she would of had to run me in for appointments before her work etc..  Never mind the work that was accomplished around here, just keep plugging away at it.  Somehow it just seems to eventually get done.
  Anyway one thing I have learned through out this ordeal, is that it takes family pulling together, that helps make it easier to Building the Simple life.......................