Head Tale

We’ve been replacing our forty year old original fence in a series of mini-projects over the past five years.

We started with the back part of our yard in May 2014 which was a major job as the neighbour directly behind us (no back alley) is at the end of a crescent on a pie-shaped lot so his yard touches on four neighbours on our side and we had to get everyone and everything coordinated between multiple families.

Then in May 2016, we tackled the fence along the south side of our house which included putting in a new gate, some lattice on top of the fence at the front of the yard (not shown) and a couple other features beyond what you’d find on a regular fence.

Last year, in May 2018, we tackled the final section of fence that needed replaced – a section along the north side of our house along our driveway which meant working with our next door neighbour again (who happens to be a carpenter so a good guy to involve in a project like this!)  We also got helping hands from a few other family members of his and mine (my dad shown) as well as a general labourer who also had carpentry experience that we hired off Kijiji because, face it, we’re all getting older and doing it all ourselves would probably cause heart attacks all around!

Shea and I finally finished the project in two marathon days earlier this week where we stained the whole fence – across the back of our yard and along both sides of our house.  (Uhm, what do you mean we should do two coatings of stain???  Maybe the project will be finished for sure next May!) 😉