And it was glorious! I know I know, I can hear you already... "GEE wiz! It sure took you long enough!"...assuming that you say Gee Wiz, I'm certain that that is an exact representation of your response.
But let me just tell you this, building fences is expensive... plus, you have a husband who could be a closet perfectionist....it equals Time.
Here is what it took:
(1) Very impressive hammer drill
(16) feet of 4x4's...cut into 4 foot pieces
(63ish) feet of 2 x 2's ...or (11) 6 foot long...2x2's cut into 3 foot pieces..roughly
(24) feet of 2x4's...of various sizes...
(16) anchors and lags for drilling in concrete
(1 million) screws...okay so not really...
(4) Steel fence post holder thingys (that's the technical term)
(1) Set of hinges and gate latch
I think that once we bought all of this stuff, we imagined that it would magically come together overnight...sort of like mickey mouse and his magical brooms in fantasia...
It Didn't.
8 hours later, Josh had made 16 holes in our breezeway concrete and we attached the brackets and the first two fence posts. Horray.
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| Notice the morning coffee holders... |
Convinced that we were mostly the way there (about 5% done) we went onward and made the horizontal beams and pickets.
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| Ta Da! |
Because I was suffering from what I like to call...an allergic reaction to manual labor...(aka, the common cold) and Josh was suffering from Jell-O hands...we took a break for about a week.
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| And then there were 2! |
Finally, all we had left was the gate. Please hold your applause until the end.
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| Ooooo Ahhhhhh |
Needless to say, we are pleased as punch. Murphy loves it, we love it, Ray loves it, neighbors maybe sort of kinda like it....It's a win win. Now, if only we could get around to mowing our lawn....Details...
Until our next bright idea....
Cheers,
Rachel
