Knowing our boundaries.

One weekend we are just going to put our feet up and relax! For now, we'll get our relaxation between 8pm and bedtime because with late summer nights there is always a job to be done.

Have we completed the fence? Have we heck as like! But we are on the way. Luke has managed to put half of the featherboard up in one day. The garden is 22 metres long and each panel has ten cms space so it's a long process. As you know we were spurred into action on the arrival of the new neighbour's dog. Whilst we were banging in nails and sploshing on paint yesterday he was happily wandering through the unfinished gap and sniffing around the deck. Who knows, maybe he cocked his leg on the lengths of wood we have laid out on the deck; after all he did choose the post Luke was working on to do his business by. For a small dog he has a lot of character!

The hens were busy out all day but tend to swap gardens, preferring the safety of Jack's whilst the dog is about. Another full day to work on the fence and we will be dog proof. As Luke commented, “Then all we'll have to do is fox proof the back!”

 

I followed him down the garden as he banged in nails, paint and brush in hand. Stupidly I didn't stir the paint well enough and put the unmixed, thin liquid on a dozen of the panels before stirring it with a proper bit of wood as opposed to the cane I'd first used which wasn't up for the job. This resulted in a green stain on those panels whilst the rest had the mixed, thicker and deeper verdigris colour applied. Of course I had to go over the original ones which took more time but I almost caught up with Luke.

Still only half way but the end is in sight, Hooray.

Jack had offered me the loan of his hedge trimmer and after checking I couldn't break it and telling him boldly I would buy him another if I did, I took it into the front garden to straighten up the hedge.Merrily I strimmed along the hedge until suddenly there was a flash of light and no power coming into it. Ah well, I thought, I must have burnt it out. That is until I lifted the chainsaw itself to see that I had sliced through the actual cable! Oops.
Luckily my Mum had taught  me how to change a plug so after five minutes with a screwdriver and a stanley knife it was good as new and I set off to finish the job.

I spent a restless night before waking to Monday morning again. My next day off has rain forecast so maybe I'll get that lazy day I'd planned. Then again, there's always the housework to do....,.