Building a Fence
No metaphor with today’s title… this past weekend I was literally building a fence in my back yard. Since I’ve built exactly zero fences prior to this, I enlisted the help of Mike, Charles, and Alison’s Dad, all of whom have also built zero fences prior to this. It’s somewhat like the blind leading the blind, only since we’re all highly educated for the most part and have played with Lego (or Meccano in some cases), we were all pretty sure we could build a fence.
Phase one was to remove the old fence; if you could call it that. It was really just two boards nailed between each two foot post. Realistically it was more of a decorative fence gone wrong. Or run out of money. Or just plain lazy. But a few bangs from the trusty hammer removed all the boards, leaving only the posts. The posts, however, were a completely different matter. The posts, luckily, were driven into the ground using three foot metal post holders rather than cement. So, in theory, we should have been able to pry them out of the ground using brute force, a pry bar and some simple machine leverage. The posts had other plans and did their best to remain in the ground, going so far as to bend my new pry bar. Eventually, thanks mostly to Mike and Charles’ efforts, the posts gave in and we were free to continue with phase two, the building of the new fence.
Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:07 Posted in General
