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Finally!  The kids are back in school, and my work has returned to normal.  Not that it is a finely tuned machine, but my system works for me.  

Here is the update.  The revised plans were submitted to the City on Wednesday of last week.  I will request a plan from Dave Skillen today that will have the exterior changes to the main house on it.  After we receive three copies of that, we will be ready to submit for that building permit.  

We have received two pool estimates and we are waiting on a third.  So far the estimates are higher than we’d hoped, but each one is lower than the previous.  With a little luck, the third estimate will be right on the money! 

Because of each item of the project being dependant upon the next, we are finding it very difficult to phase the project as we originally intended.  It seems that we will have to at least begin construction on all areas to be efficient about the construction.  The retention wall on the West side is also the back wall of the pool house and the end wall of Lillie’s Pad.  We need to get these structures enclosed at the very least even though we will not have to finish the interior of the pool house until we have completed all construction on Lillie’s Pad.  The pool needs to be plumbed and poured before we complete the landscaping so that all equipment has access and nothing is damaged.  Of course, the driveway to Lillie’s Pad needs to be layed out but not poured for construction traffic.  This is where we will use our excess dirt to fill in for the drive.  Hopefully we will come close to breaking even on our dirt.  If not, we will have to make arrangements to remove the excess.