Now You See It.... Now You Don't!

I know you might be thinking of Mallory and Lindsay's snowman

(and his tiny dachshund beside him) melting..... and they didn't

last too long. But I am referring to the fence behind them.

Although you can't tell from this photo, the boards were

rotting out at ground level. Both the east and the south sides

were ready to fall over and pull the remaining boards over

like dominoes.

So the decision was made. New fence. Vinyl, so it would last.

And maybe, just maybe, the wasps won't like the vinyl as well

as the knotholes in the redwood.

Here comes the big truck!

They unload the vinyl as Anna watches with curious eyes.

Cool stuff!

Trenches dug, forms set, footings poured

for the posts. How would you like digging

these trenches through the hard rocky earth?

The mounds of rock and dirt have to

be spread around the creek and the sides.

We aren't called Rock Canyon for no reason!

Very hard back-breaking work.

Anna is delighted to be outside again

after long winter months of cold. Her

laughter spills across the spreading lawn.

The fence behind her is now gone.

We have to hire men to cut down a couple trees and shrubs

growing on the other side. I won't miss these ugly sprawling

things.

Ofa digs away.

The yard looks wonderful without a fence--more expansive

and open. We wish we didn't need a fence. But the posts are in.

"Good fences make good neighbors," says someone in Robert

Frost's poem, Mending Fences.

At last the men come to pour the concrete.

Now things will change fast!

The fence at 8 a.m. this morning. It looks gray but is not-- has more tan in it.

Let's hope this one stands up for a LONG time! But I must agree with Robert Frost when he wrote in his poem Mending Fences, "Something there is that doesn't love a fence." I know just what he means!