Welcome to the new look
Wave Without A Shore

Home Depot screwed up the order and shorted us a panel and a post-cap. We know darned well what was ordered, and we back our fence guy on that one. On the other hand, it's gorgeous. Everything we hoped for in looks.

We're kind of stuck here waiting for fence to happen [Monday]...and we're still on the Forever Diet, [but 40 lbs lighter than last year!] but--- Who knows? We might get something special for dinner. Or something. I'll have to see the cook [me] feels. It looks nice...

Jane was up at 6, preparing, taking down tarp, raking, prepping. I helped at 7. By nine we were waiting... But we got a call from the fence guys: they're in high wind, and wind is coming. This means no fence can be set. Sigh. So we get fence on Monday. We have to...

But all the holes are dug, and it's less our problem today. We just raise and lower the tarp fence, and let the crew do their thing, while we try to bring order out of the chaos the house has become---mud on the kitchen floor, tools and parts of tools piled...

Turned out they wanted us to pull the fenceposts, too. I don't think we'd have had it in us. We're exhausted. And of course it turns cold, and we get a 25 mph gust with promise of rain...as they're setting the concrete. We turned out to have to move 3 large peonies...

The last day before the post-setters arrive. We've got some work, yet, which is to pull two gates, a last panel of the back fence, and to bring the tarp inward in the final setup that will protect the pond while the new posts set. This involves less lifting, but more...

...we're going to have to move it. In the advent of the wind and rain we took the easiest course and fastened it to standing fence posts. We're going to have to relocate it closer in, and figure how to secure it without the helpful posts. Today we tackle a smaller...

No plan survives contact with the enemy. In this case, those sections of the fence are, at least the 18 feet we just took down, handmade on the hardware offered for the 'bought' sections. We may have some 'bought' sections on the west side, but the north is a monster....

No plan survives contact with the enemy. In this case, those sections of the fence are, at least the 18 feet we just took down, handmade on the hardware offered for the 'bought' sections. We may have some 'bought' sections on the west side, but the north is a monster....

THat's done. The contract is signed. Saturday we start taking the fence apart. And we really, really hope we like the color we picked out. I plan for us to have a camera during the takedown. And process. It's too bad we don't have a camera-person but hey, we're the...

THat's done. The contract is signed. Saturday we start taking the fence apart. And we really, really hope we like the color we picked out. I plan for us to have a camera during the takedown. And process. It's too bad we don't have a camera-person but hey, we're the...

The larger area on the other side of the bridge remains to see to, and a little squib at the U end of the pond, but we're doing well. I didn't recognize Grant this year: I kept wondering where we had gotten a medium sized tricolor. But that's our baby from last year....