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Getting closer on the playground-final work getting ready for mission team

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The view as I wrap up another day roughly 6:30 PM.  The light will last long enough for me to boil water for my shower and walk to the shower. I know everyone is tired of hearing about planing boards, but guess what I did this week?  I did concrete, repaired a chair, repaired floors with concrete, repaired the generator, repaired the planer, set posts and yep I planed a lot more boards. Finally, I get to show you a picture of some actually work that looks like something is being built.  On Wednesday and Thursday, I dug out the holes for the main posts (the 2x6 boards I sistered up the other week. They are 2 feet 1" deep (the sand layer was 1" thinner than expected).  One way to get your holes dug squared up to each other is to set stakes where you want to dig your holes.  Run a string around the stakes then mark 3 feet from one stake and 4 feet from the other stake on the string.  If you measure from those two marks you should get 5 feet if your st...