Monday continues

That would be love to bark at the otters.  
     So after bowling we decided to take it easy today and continue demolition.  So of course few screws would come out and eight 2" X 12" X 12 foot boards needed prying loose, which means pulling screw heads through 2 inches of board.  We  took frequent breaks !!  Now we are down to the final board.  Upon this board sets a post to which the gate going into the lake is attached. This post is attached to the final board at the bottom.  This is unattached quite easily.  The post has one screw attaching it to the sea wall.  This also is easily removed.  Now the post will not budge. Yeppers!  Another fly in the ointment.  There is one other screw holding the post in place.  It is screwed in from BEHIND the seawall.  If we try to pry it we take a chance of destroying a sixteen foot section of sea wall. Behind the seawall is decking.  Upon this decking we have stacked all the railing we have removed.  This means removal of railing.  This means unscrewing sufficient number of deck boards .  This means hoping deck board screws will come out and I have already told you about our problems with deck screw removal. 
     We decide to use a SAWS-ALL to cut the screw.  Hubby says the only problem now is the big red thing that is blocking us from reaching the SAWS-ALL.  So now we move the Honda so we can back the Galaxie out of the garage far enough to get the one tool we didn't think we would need,  We have several long blades for this tool but they are for cutting wood.  We only have short blades for cutting metal.  We  cross our fingers that the short blade will reach.  It barely does but we have to do some twisting of the post to get the angle he needs,  But we get the job done.  We remove the final deck board and move on to the first support board,  and once more we find this relatively easy because it is nailed and not screwed.  And then we are at the end nearest the seawall and it will not come off.  We pry, we pry, we strain, we struggle.  Finally the last two inches of board breaks off!  The original builders had used, not nails, not screws, but a BOLT!  So Hubby hammers away of the remains of the wood being held in place by that bolt and when he has finished, the bolt has magically vanished but we do not care!  It is quitting time!
      All we need to do is put up some temporary railing to keep the dogs out of the lake and the newly arrived otters in!   We decide on using the section of railing with a gate in it so we can get back into the lake the next day we get a chance to work.   This takes about fifteen minutes.  Putting the tools away takes another fifteen minutes and it is on to showers and frozen pizza for dinner!
     Tonight we will go sit on our last remaining dock and watch the dogs bark at otters!