Fences

After almost 40 years, our fences are being replaced. What a surprising amount of work! We are driving the project with the full support of Ron and Susan on one side and Morgan and Anne behind us. There is no way we are going to touch the fence between the difficult neighbor and us. Even when we replace or plant a new bush, they assume it is a personal confrontation. Imagine if we put a fence next to the one he built when we were on vacation in 2000. He would go nuts.

So, we have driven around the fancy areas, have taken lots of photos of fences and are meeting with the landscaper who did the hard and soft landscaping of our back yard many years ago. We are having him remove some large bushes along the back and side fences. I am done trimming. The goal to any change in the garden is to reduce the amount of trimming and work for me as I deplete.

As he has a “real” job now, he will only be able to work on the project on the weekends. He does really good work so we are willing to work around having the garden torn up to accommodate his schedule.

I also think that they will not be completed until after the book club has its planned late-June meeting here. I have contacted the head of the club and we are re-scheduling it after the summer. We will still host the next meeting but it will be sometime in September. The pressure is off!