Random DIY mixing and More

[Zazie]

I totally forgot until last night that our anniversary was today. I stopped on the way home and picked up flowers for the wife and we are going out for dinner in a little bit. I’m usually better at remembering the important stuff.

You had fencing on your mind.

 

[hittman]

You had fencing on your mind.

That’s about all I’ve been thinking about the last few weeks.

 

[hittman]

Good afternoon. It’s 87 out now so I’m taking a cool down/ vape break. I got the top and bottom rails done in the back and bottom on the side. I’ll go back out and get the other top rails on and that might be about it for today besides tying into the neighbors fence. Definitely no pickets or gates today.

 

[FranC]

Good afternoon. It’s 87 out now so I’m taking a cool down/ vape break. I got the top and bottom rails done in the back and bottom on the side. I’ll go back out and get the other top rails on and that might be about it for today besides tying into the neighbors fence. Definitely no pickets or gates today.

Good afternoon, hitt. You have a pic of what you've done so far?

 

[Territoo]

Misty has been blessed. She's now a Catholic kitty.

 

[FranC]

Headed to my iPad and tv.

 

[FranC]

Waving Hi to you great folks from my iPad.

 

[hittman]

Good afternoon, hitt. You have a pic of what you've done so far?

I’ll take some pics and post later. I went back out to finish the rails and my youngest daughter showed up. She was a big help. She’s been helping her boyfriend build things so she’s a regular little carpenter. She ran string lines and helped put stringers on. Made things go much quicker than doing it by myself. I’m done for today. Stringers are done on the back, side, and one side of the house. I still need to dig a post hole on the left side of the house and do a couple stringers leading to the house and gate. We also got tied in to the neighbors fence in the back. I had to rip one of his pickets down to 3.5 inches since it wouldn’t fit once I ran my stringer.

 

[hittman]

Here you go Fran.

 

[FranC]

Here you go Fran.

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That sure is a lot of fence.

 

[hittman]

That sure is a lot of fence.

Around 60 feet across the back and 64 feet down one side. The neighbor has a fence already on one side of us so didn’t have to do that side. I’m going to have gates on both sides of our house. I still have to do pickets, dig a post hole and set one post, and install the gates.

 

[englishmick]

We had a big spruce tree that died a year or so ago. I drilled holes in the stump and let it sit for weeks. It really didn’t do much of anything so I dug around it and cut the roots with a sawzall. It was quite the job. I can sympathize with what you’re dealing with.

Here's what I had to dig up. Looks like a giant wooden pineapple. You can see the ends of a couple of the big horizontal roots I had to cut. This was from a bush that was only 5 feet high. The sideways roots appeared to go out several feet. Maybe the boxwood evolved in a place that got a lot of hurricanes.

I don't do such heavy duty labor much these days. I got big blisters on the skin between my thumbs and index fingers, and several on the pads of my thumbs and fingers. And several gashes on the backs of my hands. When I was working for a living my hands were pretty tough.

 

[FranC]

Around 60 feet across the back and 64 feet down one side. The neighbor has a fence already on one side of us so didn’t have to do that side. I’m going to have gates on both sides of our house. I still have to do pickets, dig a post hole and set one post, and install the gates.

That is a lot.

 

[FranC]

Here's what I had to dig up. Looks like a giant wooden pineapple. You can see the ends of a couple of the big horizontal roots I had to cut. This was from a bush that was only 5 feet high. The sideways roots appeared to go out several feet. Maybe the boxwood evolved in a place that got a lot of hurricanes.

I don't do such heavy duty labor much these days. I got big blisters on the skin between my thumbs and index fingers, and several on the pads of my thumbs and fingers. And several gashes on the backs of my hands. When I was working for a living my hands were pretty tough.

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That’s a lot of work too.

 

[FranC]

Goodnight folks. Sweet dreams.

 

[hittman]

Here's what I had to dig up. Looks like a giant wooden pineapple. You can see the ends of a couple of the big horizontal roots I had to cut. This was from a bush that was only 5 feet high. The sideways roots appeared to go out several feet. Maybe the boxwood evolved in a place that got a lot of hurricanes.

I don't do such heavy duty labor much these days. I got big blisters on the skin between my thumbs and index fingers, and several on the pads of my thumbs and fingers. And several gashes on the backs of my hands. When I was working for a living my hands were pretty tough.

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That doesn’t look like any kind of fun.