Stayed busy all day, but accomplished a lot of stuff. Have two gates up now for the new fence, when it comes. Used one of the posts that was attached to one of the gates, it was hard to get up, because I had concreted it over twenty years ago. Once I had cut the dirt away, from it, and worked it back and forth; I realized I had concreted it, and it wouldn't budge or come up. So I took the other four by four posts, and prided it up with the screw hangers and a rock under the 4x4 . That worked but it was hard too. Kept Getty and Maisie in Leo and Foxy's pens, while I did all the work. Maisie seemed to handle it best. Getty wants to get back inside the house, I can tell she was a lap puppy, for whoever had her before us, she's 2 and a half yo, and Maisie only one year old; so no one had very much of a chance to spoil her. They are both out on the porch now; on their heat pads and beds; and beginning to accept it now. They've added quite a lot of work on us; but I don't regret getting them at all; Love them already. Marie vacuumed the van out in the back yard, while I worked on gates and posts. She also set us up a table and chairs, so we can spend time with two new dogs, while working. After you add gates and posts work, to trail walk, cleaning, cooking, feeding chickens, dogs, vacuuming, and numerous other things you do in the run of a day; it's not slowing.
If I had gates set up without the fencing, I'd have to mess with the neighbors. I'd stand on one side and call for help. "Can you go inside and get the key???"
These gates I'm talking about, are on the inside around our house, The outer perimeter is also fenced with gates; neighbors can't see these gates, at all.
Oh. I could imagine a couple of gates out there in your yard, entering into nothing like some goofy Monty Python skit.
A long day got a few more things accomplished, dealing with our new dogs adds more to the list, but so far it was worth it, they are very smart and not suffering anymore in the pound. It's a shame more people do not adopt some animals, before they put them down. The pound we adopted these two from, has over eighty dogs and Lord knows how many cats. So many they put a big sign out front saying full, taking no more pets. People are pulling up and dumping cats and dogs and driving off. I cut some of the vines sticking up in the new trail, today with bush hog. It's gonna be a nice trail and now I am able to run the new fence on the side of it. Still not sure where all the vines come from; it's "insane" how many there are here. Put a couple new latches on the gate I made on the dog pen, Maisie was about to push her way out of it; at the bottom, so I changed it to two latches, one on the bottom, and one on top. So much to do; will start up again tomorrow.
Busy all day again. Pressure washed porch floors, screens, side walks, and part of the upper front of the house. Looks great and makes me happy; when I look at it. I helped Marie a little, cutting and pulling vines and debris, made another pile. Do any of you have a step counter? We do and I'm hitting seven thousand to eight thousand ,"steps", a day. They say in the instructions five thousand a day is fine and seven thousand is fantastic for staying healthy. I'll post a pick of the kind we have below. They were $19.99 at Amazon, right now on sale for $12.99. Well worth it, to see how active your walking, "daily", is.
Oh; I forgot to "mention", that before the two new dogs; I was averaging 3 to 5 thousand steps a day, but now I have increased to 7 or 8 thousand, so far.
Fence was delivered today, 5'x328'. Also ordered 328X4' to lay on ground under the 5', so no digging out. I will help do whatever I can of course. 4' fence will be here late this afternoon.
I want to start on my van soon as I get the boards to make a stand on its own frame. Not fastened to the van, just leaning. I saw this on YouTube, VanLife forum. I took everything out of it yesterday and vacuumed what I could with shop vac, Jake had to help vacuum, too much suction with that thing. I'll take pictures later before and when its done after. I just took this picture a few minutes ago. It is a 15 passenger 1995 E350 Club Wagon, we owned it since 2003. @Yvonne Smith , see picture, any ideas?I don't like all the dark in it.
Up at 3 am, this morning having a coffee. Thought I would drop in a few minutes, and touch on what my busy day will be like. Have everything for the fence except the 4 ft fence that goes on the bottom; was supposed to come yesterday, which they notified me will be here today, "instead". So mostly today, I will be putting up posts, and fences. Dogs are all doing well and are really smart. Marie is still sleeping as are the four dogs, hope that "all of you", have a great day.
So what are you doing, Jake? Are you laying the 4' fence on the ground as a barrier at the bottom of the upright fence so that critters (dogs?) cannot dig under? I've not heard of doing that, but it sounds effective...and it sure beats digging a trench to drop the upright fence into.
] Yeah, it works very well; when anything tries digging in or out, they see it doesn't work. We always did this and never regretted it. Even though, I was up at 3 am yesterday, I still laid 160' of fence on the ground, and an up right fence too. It's pulled tight, and done, today I have to twist the tie bottom, with wire; and that much is done, only have 160 to 200' to go. Looks nice.