The Fence is Standing!

 this is the way Milton left our back fence, that belongs to our neighbor and is 25 years old, we paid half when they wanted to take down chain link and put up privacy fence. we regret that, but hindsight is 2020 and we had 25 years of privacy.

 Two months after the storm, we went out to remove the barricade I had dragged there to keep Beau contained in our yard. While Bob took apart a 20-foot metal pole the tree people threw on the fence, the blue line you see above, I dragged all the barricade away, including branches, an old swing, and boards.

Bob says, go in their yard and push on the fence; to stand it up so I can brace it. i said there is no way I can get to it without falling and I can't push it up if I do get to it.

Well Go TRY! I can't do it either.

if you enlarge you can see the neighbor's yard has not been touched in many years, it's a jungle over there. I knocked on their door and asked him if I could go in the back yard and push the fence up. He said yes and by the time I got in their back yard, his wife came running out on the porch yelling, no, I don't want you to work in our yard. As she got closer, she said I am afraid you will get hurt. 

SO WAS I.  

She said show me what you want done and I will do it. She is 30 years younger than I am and knows our ages. 

While saying Thank you Lord in my head, I watched her try to dig through the jungle to get to the fence and said I will go on the other side and help Bob.

There was no way we could have done this without her help.

She pushed it up, I held my side and bob wired 3 places together, so it was standing, not steady but UP.

She did the same to the other hole and said she had to go to work. Our neighbors are very nice. He is disabled and can't walk, he needs knees and has no health insurance, she cleans houses to pay the bills. That is why their yard is a jungle.

After I drove to Ace Hardware and paid 12 dollars for Screws because either we had none or he had lost them. I dragged boards that came off the other old fence the tree people removed, held them cross wise and Bob used the power drill to screw it steady. 

It's done and it will never be pretty but 2 hours later we have a safe yard for

The standing sturdy but ugly fence is done and only cost time and $$ for screws. 

these are the after pics from the beginning above. 

the jungle will take care of the ugly part.

to be continued tomorrow