The Parris Fam: Build Fence

Its finally done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have a fence!!!!!! When I closed on the house last April (PS My 1 year anniversary was last week - thanks for remembering!), the first thing we wanted to do was build a fence. One year and one week later, that has been checked off the list.

I wish I could say that it was the party I had hoped for, but I think both sets of parents would disagree. Friday our plans were pushed back due to weather but we did get to have dinner at Millers Grocery. I think that's one thing we all enjoyed. We hadn't dug any holes at that point though.

Saturday morning, the sky's cleared and construction began. The auger we had re

nted however only got us about 10-15 inches of the 24 needed before we hit rock. And not just one rock. Layer after layer of rock! They can't say that we didn't build our house on a firm foundation.

Out of the 18 holes we had to dig, the auger was only able to complete 1 on its own. The 6 of us, (Yes 6. My mother was in work clothes and actually worked all day both days!) were in a rotation: one had the shovel, one had the rock buster, one with a post hole digger, and one on their hands and knees clearing out any busted rock pieces we could. The other two were checking the next hole or resting. By 6pm we had all holes dug and poles set. After a quick shower and dinner we all passed out.

Sunday was suppose to be the easy day. All that was left to do was tack up the panels and hang the gates. ...No such luck. The gates were an issue and only one of them is currently functioning properly. The second one was too heavy and a light weight gate will have to be ordered.

The good news is though, its done! AND, I got to use power tools! We now have some landscape work to finish which Jonathan is at home working on now. Once complete, we'll have some before and after shots to post.