Saturday

Developers have bought several lots and old houses in our neighborhood and plan to demolish them and build brand new "better" homes. 2 of those houses have already been demolished, one of which sits right behind our house. Since they've torn that house down we've had a clear view of the main, busiest road that runs through the neighborhood. That clear view of so much activity has set our little Mina to barking. A lot apparently.

So we were informed of this, since we don't hear it much being gone all day, and a suggestion was made to put up a fence. We pondered the idea and decided, "Yea, we don't much like seeing that traffic either, and we certainly don't want a building crew to see all of our backyard business plus we of course don't want to bother our neighbors with our little barking dog."

The suggestion also came with information about cheap bamboo fencing that would easily be installed against our existing chain link fence. So we setout yesterday to acquire said fencing and the work commenced.

Most of the work involved clearing all of the English Ivy and Honeysuckle off of the existing fence, not to mention other sundry plants.

We did most of the clearing in the morning and then I got a wild hair and drug us out there at 5pm to start putting up the fence.







We put up the first section and took a step back to see how it looked and to see if you could see through it easily. We were disappointed to notice that yes, you can see straight through it as if it weren't even there. So the whole reason we bought the damn thing in the first place was immediately thwarted.

However, we decided we liked the way it looked, so we continued the installation. The 4th section is much longer than we need to finish the length of the fence so our plan is to cut the remainder off and then in half to install a second layer across the bottom. That should help and prevent Mina from seeing through. We may back that second layer with a more opaque material to make sure she can't see through.

Regardless, we're happy with the fence. We think it looks cleaner and eventually we hope that the English Ivy will grow back and cover it more fully so we'll have more of a plant life fence than a blank bamboo fence.