Vacation pics and what's up since....

If you want to see a lot of great vacation pics, check out MDB's blog! She loaded up a slide show that has some of the highlights!

Today, the work began! It started with mowing the front yard, which had rather grown out of control while we were on vacation. Then, it was time to start rebuilding the fence in the back. Before MDB and I met, the next-door neighbor built the fence, but it was only the second fence he'd ever erected (his own was the first). It was really nice of him, but he didn't know what he was doing and the fence started to fall down several months ago. One section fell off altogether, so we've had a walk-through for a month or so! The first thing, of course, was to wreck the old fence, so I hacked at it with a crow bar and took it down a section at a time. The grand plan (I hope it works!) is to simply nail up whole sections once the framing has been redone. Anyway, once that was done, I pulled a guideline to mark the top of where the pickets should go when the fence is re-erected and then another to mark the height of the posts. When the old fence was put up, the height of the posts did not matter the way it was done. Now, using a top rail that runs along from post top to post top, the posts should be approximately the same height. That line came right back down once the mark was made, then I dug the hole for the new post, which will act as the anchor for the gate hinges. Naturally, after the hole was dug, I mixed two bags of concrete and set the post. Of course, the post has to set up for 24 hours, so after the concrete was poured and the post leveled, I cut the rest of the posts off level and ran the top rail up to (but not including) the new post. By that time, it was getting a little toasty outside, so I moved things inside and hung a new cabinet in the bathroom.

That did me in for the day!

Tomorrow, the foundation people will be tweaking the leveling on the Holly house, so I'm going to mow over there and spend the time doing a couple of other little jobs that need to be done.

Then I'll get back to the fence on Thursday!