A Dog, a Butterfly, and a Fence

Around noon, we got our acts together and got back to work on the fence. We had three more panels to build, and all six to hang. We spent a bit of time making two panels, went and hung four of the five we had done, and then made the last panel (which was an oddball because the space it went into was wider than any of the others), and hung the last two.

It made sense at the time.

Anyway, one of the things that worked very well was the assembly area on the driveway. Nice, flat, relatively easy workspace, although the crawling around did get tiring after a while.

The real benefit of a nice flat workspace is that you can make a nice square panel that is glued and screwed together so it is incredibly strong compared to the usual built-in-place fence. And strong was very important to us because of the conditions on the other side of the fence.

Putting together the last panel

We brought the chickens out to spend the day in the chicken yard wile we worked, which was great for them. And of course the dogs were out with us, too, mainly getting in the way. I made Goldie a nice wallow out of freshly dug dirt to get her to lie in a less inconvenient spot.

Goldie in her wallow

And I've been meaning to take a photo of the Cecile Brunner rose for the last several days and just not getting around to it. As you can see, she's about four feet above the fence she's leaning on, so around ten feet tall. This is her great flush of blooms and it's always a stunner.

Cecil;e Brunner in bloom