One Thing Leads To Another

The fence is complete. Although they did have to return for a second trip to repair the gate because the arch on it wasn't straight.

You know that phrase "One thing leads to another"? Yeah, well that's what happens when you do ONE project. It turns into many other projects. We decided it would look nice if we put stones in front of both gates to insure the dogs (one in particular) wouldn't want to try and dig her way out.

So the one project turned into three or four and we keep adding more. We also decided we needed to put down fabric and then river rock on top of that, to deter the dogs and keep mud from splashing up on the lovely white pristine fence we just had installed that is maintenance free.  Ha ha!

Now we have two gate walkways to complete, fabric and river rock to place around the perimeter of the fence and who knows after that.....oh yeah a new roof, and then,

Chasing Flags

The yard has been marked with flags for the fence installment, which is planned for this coming Wednesday.

Red flags for power lines, Orange flags for telephone lines, and Yellow flags for gas lines. A slew of flags for Phoenix to pull up by her cute little mouth to proudly parade around the yard and then proceed to chew them to pieces.

After many, many times of replacement of said flags I gave up and said

Fence Me In

Soon and very soon, we are replacing our old, worn out, wooden post and chain link fence in the backyard with a new and improved 6 foot white vinyl privacy fence.

I'm excited about it but at the same time