rockybane's Blog

Fence Building
Oct 9, 2008 | 7:26 AM PST
Tags: fence , buckets , wishing well

We finally got our fence finished that I've been wanting for years and years. I had tried to cut a few posts for it but just wasn't physically fit enough to get it done, so hubby took pity on me and cut my posts, just a few every evening until we had enough. Then he drove them, just a few every evening, until he had them all placed into the ground. Then....he nailed on most of the crosspieces for me. I could do this part, I was doing it, a few a day, until I was getting it done, but he felt sorry for me and thought it was too hard for me to do, so he did it, a few every evening, until we had it all done.

As he was nailing the crosspieces, I would put the posts long ways across them, and we finished it Sunday afternoon. We kinda flubbed, I did want the posts a little longer so they would overlap each other about 6 or 8 inches, but hubby didn't understand what I meant, and cut all the posts a little too short. Some of them ended up being a little too short anyway, and barely fit on the posts. We don't know what we did wrong, but anyway, we decided this would be our own personal design. Hubby offered to cut some longer posts, but I can't stand the thought of him having to do all that work over. The fence works like it is, and the look of it is growing on me. I can't wait to start planting climbing roses, vines, anything that will look pretty up against it!

A picture of it heading west:

Here's one with my wishing well in the front--it needs a little repair work on it, the cattle rubbed on it and broke a couple of rocks loose, and knocked the roof down a little:

 

and my favorite little flowerbed in my front yard, just zinnias and buckets filled up with the leftover impatiens from the cattle's snack time they had in my flowerbeds a few weeks ago:

 

and just one more picture of the little bed beside my front porch. I've moved flowers around all over the yard this year, trying to keep them growing and away from my animals-lol--don't look at the bermuda grass, I've been lazy and haven't pulled it out in a few: