Gardening and Fence Building

One of the reasons behind our decision to live full time in our motorhome was because we couldn't keep up with the gardening since we were on the road so much.  In fact, we had to hire someone to handle the weed pulling and grass cutting. I have to admit neither of us have missed this activity at all :-)

So what were we doing today - working in our son's garden and helping to put back together a split rail fence that has been down for over a year due to rotting posts and the need to access the yard from the street to bring in all of the materials needed to create a french drain and raise the level of some parts of the yard which was last year's project.

Dan and Ken were off to purchase new fence posts early this morning while Jen and I got started cleaning up weeds and trimming bushes that are planted along the fence line.  In the process we tried to find the old fence holes.  We knew approximately where they were but plants and grass had grown right across where they were.

Part of the project also included replacing the mailbox - mounting it on the corner fence post as the previous one was hit by a car that slid off the road this past winter.  Dan's neighbor, Harry, has been rebuilding his deck so he was able to contribute a piece of wood for the "platform" to set the box on as well as a piece of wood to act as a bracket below it.  So he also got involved in all the activity of the day.

 The girls helped out in other areas of the yard clearing weeds, carting our wheelbarrows full of branches, grass, and weeds to a weed pile at the back of the yard and getting laundry on and off the line.

But at the end of the day even though we were exhausted, we could all smile big because we finished our project.  What a great sense of pride we could all feel when we surveyed the yard. And once more, it is "the house with the rail fence" when someone wants to visit and needs a way to identify the place.