One of the things we’ve been meaning to do since we moved in is fully fence the back yard. Above, you see a picture of the piece of fence we designed and built to go at the north end of the house. I built the fence, and John built the gate. After last year, I was tired of plain old vertical fence slats. This is much more interesting, don’t you think?
So we built another one at the south side, between the house and the cottage, as shown below. Our back yard is now fully fenced, which means sometimes we can let the chickens out, and when Tycho comes to visit, we can just open the back door and let him out!
So that left me with a lot of scraps, so I built a little cover for the pump that runs the secondary water for the irrigation system, which is gradually coming back on-line. I’m not happy with my current solution for the ridge line, so I stopped in the middle, before I got too far along. I’ll keep looking during my travels to Lowe’s, etc., until I find something I like.
Why all this activity? Well, we’ve finally gotten all the basic, hidden things, like insulation, electrical panels, a new furnace, etc. out of the way. So now we get to do fun things, like plant trees, build fences, and, in my next post... build new raised beds!
If you know what you are looking for, you can see the three new trees in the ‘field’ behind the pump house. Currently, we are reading a book titled ‘Small Scale Grain Raising’. Next year, that ‘field’ might be planted in wheat!
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