Apparently I composed part of a post in Front Page last night then forgot to copy it to my blog before I wrote over it. At any rate, while my sister was at the orthopedist's yesterday morning I went by Lowe's and paid for enough rails to finish the fence, then sent Kyle and Jared back with the receipt after we got home. They spent a big part of yesterday afternoon tearing down and rebuilding some things Brad and Chad messed up a couple of months ago and didn't get a good start on putting up new rails till this afternoon. Due to my decision to use deck screws instead of nails to attach rails to the fence we can only spend about 4 hours a day doing that, then it's time to recharge the battery packs for our cordless drills, but I think the fence will take longer to start falling apart with screw instead of nails. They'll be back to finish the job tomorrow, then I'll have them redo the east fence when they're done, or sometime soon if there isn't time tomorrow; I measured wrong and had them put the bottom rail the wrong distance from the ground when we did the east fence the first time, so now it needs fixed to match up right with the rest of the fence. At least since the rails are attached with screws it won't be a big deal to take them off and move them up a little.

I'm also going to have to have the guys take some old rails off the west fence and replace them with new ones, then use the old ones to patch a spot farther south along the fence due to little people trying to stand on old boards that weren't strong enough to hold them. Eventually, several years from now I hope, that process of replacing old rails with new ones and using the old ones farther south will have been repeated enough times that there aren't any old rails left.