The grass really is greener on the other side...

As most of you know, our September was spent building fence. What we thought would be a project for the long weekend drug on and on and on and on....

After we figured out where the fenceposts were going to go, we rented an auger to drill the holes. We were going to have our landscaper do it for us with his little excavator, but he said that we would have to wait for the ground to dry out... and we couldn't wait! Our fence material, by this time, was already sitting in a mudpuddle.

I couldn't believe how burly the thing was! it was unreal. I ended up having to sit on the handlebars as we worked it, just to get it to go into the ground. We were trying to drill 4' deep through wet clay. The damn auger kept getting stuck in the ground... it was the most painful thing I have done. My body was so exhausted that I could have almost cried. This took us 2 days to do our 28 holes.

But, once that was done, things only got better. That is, after the blisters on our hands healed up and the burns on my arms.... and after we had enough rest that we could move....

Throughout the rest of the process, nothing could possibly be as horrible as having to auger all those holes. And, this was enough to get us through to the end.

Slowly the fence began to take shape.

One by one the rails and fence boards went on...

Through the rain and the cold...

Then, Ryan masoned the two front corners of the fence to look like rock columns.

The columns are done from the same rock as the front of our house, and they look really good.

And, finally, we are done! Our fence has no gate, which is great for the dogs.

And now, the grass really is greener on the other side...of our fence, that is. Because, now, our beautiful new back yard is full of yellow dead spots.