We are spending this Spring Break making a fence to keep Captain Rubberneck on his side of the gravel (we have a neighbor who is neither our fan nor us his).  Here is our progress so far:

First up was Pipi (Pronounced “Pie-Pie) Littlejohn with the hip tool that made digging just that much faster and easier.  They had 12 holes done in under an hour and my understanding is that he will return tomorrow to do the remaining 12 on the apartment side of the house.

Once the holes were dug I put in some posts.  Martha sniffed stuff.  We were quite the team.  My official position during fence building is “Lead Scurrier”.  It is a title I invented myself, but essentially I am sent scurrying after whatever is needed: shims, tums, beers, boards, hammers, get cement, get shovel, dig, mix the cement, pick up dog poop, sandwiches, kid duty, sort boards and that sort of stuff while Bradley saves his arms doing only arm injury -worthy tasks like hammering and pouring just so.

Then the foreman came out and started bossing everyone around, pointing and hollering, “Do more of that!”  “Do more of THIS!”  We were unsure of what either ‘This’ or ‘That’ were, but we did our best to scurry around and look busy until he FINALLY went away and started making a circus on the back patio with balls, hula hoops and scrap lumber.

There was a lot of re-digging, leveling and pouring of cement, but finally we had the outline for what our yard will look like:

By the end of day one we had the yard side all poured and placed, the middle braces all in place ready for boards on day two.

Bradley had to rip bunch of boards, but at the end of day two our fence looked like this:

Pleased as punch!

Today we are looking for a good price on play chips so we can finish the front of the fence, and tomorrow we will attack the apartment side and FINALLY we will have privacy against prying eyes (like anyone was prying, but whatever) while we are in the hot tub!  Yeah for Spring Break Fences!


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