Category: house

We’ve known for quite a while that we needed a new fence along the West part of our property, but we tend to take forever to make decisions about making changes/updates to our home. We’d been living with a leaning fence for years and a gate that was really just a bit of chicken wire nailed up. We’re not fancy people, but it was really not fancy. My dad, claiming he wanted to be sure to have a yard for Sparky to run around in, because Sydney wouldn’t escape, cleared some time in his schedule and came down to fix our fence up. I don’t officially have any ‘after’ pictures here, but it looks dandy now. My mom was able to come down as well and watch the girls while I cleaned out our garage. It was therapeutic to purge a TON of junk. I think I took two huge truck loads to the Goodwill. They asked if we were moving…..that’s how much stuff I got rid of.

My grandparents were also able to come over during the fence building and my grandpa and Maggie pounded some nails in togetther. The combination of them working on the fence was both loud and sweet. They were both talking at eachother, neither really listening to what the other was saying, but both laughing. Those two have a special bond.

My mom also planted a few pots with Maggie/Construction Sal‘s help. I was happy to be working in the garage and I know my mom was happy to get her hands dirty with the girls, so it all worked out just fine…..