One of our favorite things about where we live is the yard. There's lots of room to play, garden, and entertain. Andy & I had talked about putting up a fence since we moved in 6 years ago, but it kept being put off. Well, with the arrival of K & T, we rearranged our priorities and kicked into fence mode, at least Andy did. He got quotes from a couple of companies, and watched some YouTube videos about DIY-ing it. He had recently helped a good friend of ours put up a privacy fence, and that sealed the deal for doing it himself.
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| This is a view of the back of our house pre-fence. The fence on the right is our awesome neighbors'. We decided to do a split rail fence to match theirs. Our grass is usually MUCH greener, but we're having a bit of a drought this summer. |
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| Andy's had a lot of help with this project, thank goodness! My dad has been here for several weekends in the blazing heat sharing the load. He's a civil engineer and doesn't mess around. :) I've never seen such a straight & beautiful fence! |
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| Here's Andy & Aaron (a mechanical engineer) putting in the first of the fence. |
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| Andy rented this post hole digger for one day, but theyended up digging a lot of the holes themselves over a couple of weekends. Turns out we have a lot of rocks. |
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| I stayed inside with the kids but we did take out popsicles, drinks and lots of water. K, of course, wants to be out 'helping' as much as possible. |
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| More building |
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| WOW! What a difference the fence makes! They just have the gates and the wire left to do and then K & T can run wild! |
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| Another view, doesn't it look great? Thank you YouTube, and of course, Aaron & my dad. :) | | |
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| So, in the midst of the fence building, a good friend of ours sent us an interesting text. Her neighbor had moved out and left a swingset. The new neighbor has older children and didn't want the set. And he didn't want money for it. Were we interested? A nanosecond later, YES WE ARE! Andy gather his army of helpers early one Saturday, and hauled it over to our place in just a few, but large pieces. |
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| Bringing it home. |
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| Putting in all back together. |
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| Almost done. At this point K knew exactly what was happening and she could hardly wait to go out. She stood at our kitchen window and watched for quite a few minutes. |
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| Aaron & Kevin putting on the roof. |
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| Slide's almost ready... |
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| And we're off! T enjoyed his inaugural swing from Papa. Papa looks pretty happy too. |
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| Uncle Miguel helped K get her swing on. |
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| Thank you, Thank you to all those who have transformed our backyard into a play place for K & T. It's been an incredible summer! |
