The Smile Continued

 

Smile from yesterday's post is is continued today

To jog your memory, the above is our back yard fence from 3 years ago, Hurricane Ian, leaned our fence against the neighbor's new fence and took down his giant banyan tree. Ian removed the whole fence across the street, and they dragged their gate to the curb, and I dragged it over here and we blocked the hole to keep Beau contained in a safe environment. The fence was ok, ugly but still a fence. Fast Forward to this past Oct and this is how it looked after Hurricane Milton.

I can hear you thinking, so what is there to SMILE about in these photos. Trust me this eyesore has been driving me crazy for 3 plus years

Yesterday, at noon, we sat consuming our lunch and talking about how well we did at the dermatolgist and transferring Bob from place to place and suddenly

 What was that? bob says What was What? I say "sounded like a sledgehammer, in the two-story house behind us. Bob says I don't hear anything. 

I race to the door and there is a BABY with a sledgehammer, Smashing the Neighbors New fence, I describe in detail to Bob. He rants on about the fence is only 2 years old, and I say remember last week when loud music played from the back yard and I said, Jim never makes noise like that, and I checked the county records and that house sold to new owner 14 months ago... Bob says No, I don't remember that. (dementia) 

I say OH NO! if they take down that fence our fence is leaning on it will fall down on them and they will leave that part of the yard with NO fence and Beau can get out and the pit bulls next door can get in our yard. Knuff Said, there was more, but skip that part.

I race to the door and over to the fence and say HELLOOOO! and startled the handsome baby with the hammer and make him jump. SMILE now. He might have been 30 but I doubt it. He SMILED really big and said HI!

I started with I am 80, my husband is 88 and he is in a wheelchair and can't walk, and we have no way to move that fence, it's been like those 3 years. I think he might be another ANGEL. he was smiling and laughing.

I explained the problem and he leaned through to see our fence and he may have said OH MY! He listened to every word I said, and I said could you do this part last? to leave our fence up and could you if I pay you remove what is leaning on the fence and take it with you? I will pay for it if you can.

He said I think we can, I will ask my boss and see what he says.  I come back in and tell bob, and he starts ranting, while I am SMILING about everyone is a crook, they will want a thousand dollars (dementia words) and I calmly finish my lunch with a SMILE in my heart because I have wanted that gone for 3 years.

20 minutes later, I hear voices, and it sounds like it's in our yard, I walk to the slider doors, and another young baby man is standing at the door talking on his cell. He says Hi, I just talked to our boss, and he said we can do what you asked, and the charge will be 150.00. Is that ok? I am smiling so big I can hardly talk.  He says give me your contact info and i will put in my phone.  

An hour later, after a lot of bamming going on, I hear voices and race to the door in time to see the two of them putting 2 sections of the fence they were removing on our side, and screwing them together

When they left at five, the old fence was gone, and the only thing standing was our snaggle tooth 30-year-old fence. 

They are working as I type this, and I am smiling and waiting to see how this story ends. 

this is what it looks like now, if you enlarge you can see through the snaggle tooth fence that is ours and the new one they removed yesterday. Beau is safe and when they are gone, I HOPE ours will be too.

I am dying to know just what fence they will put up as a replacement. I hope its wood, but am guessing white plastic, and as long as its a fence I don't care.