The Fence

The fence installation has begun!!! Yippee!!! (Read my previous post to see why this excites me so much). On Saturday Ryan and our neighbor Mike (whose fence you see in the background...he's done this before) started putting up fence posts. It was a beautiful day and we are so grateful that Mike gave up his entire day to help us!! They spent the majority of the day figuring out the logistics of things. My dad would be so proud of all their measuring and leveling. I think they actually had four levels that they were using.
The guys got six posts installed before a thunder storm rolled in and they got lots of holes dug!!
On Sunday we actually skipped church so we could get some fence panels hung (we're in a time crunch to get this fence installed because it's "fireworks season"). Unfortunately it didn't end up being a very productive day. Thanks to some confusion over brackets (and three trips to Lowes) we only got two panels hung by about 7pm. Now that we've got it figured out the hanging of the panels should go rather quickly, Ryan doesn't seem to think it's that hard.
So next weekend is the BIG weekend. We've recruited some help and we're going to try and get it all done, well at least get all the posts in (Ryan can hang the panels by himself if need be). I'll keep you posted on our progress!