Was out at the house for just a few hours this afternoon to receive our dining room table delivery and let the Sears guy in to (finally) fix our fridge, which is now up and running (apparently I fried the circuit panel when I plugged in the broken plug). So while I was there I finished putting up the deck posts, and I staged the installation of the top rail:






I should have ordered the cedar top rail in 12' lengths so that the seams would all fall on the posts; surprise, surprise - I didn't figure that out until after the wood came. So I'll cut these to size and use the scrap for the trim pieces around the windows/doors. And I'll put in another (sigh) order for cedar...