Concrete and Fence

This year was the year for the front yard and other random projects around the house. So, be prepared for a few blogs on all the things happening around here and why I haven't had a second to blog.

Best Vinyl put our non-sharing neighbor fence sides up in early March. As some of you know, they did an AWFUL job. We ended up getting our money back from American Express since Best Vinyl wouldn't cooperate. Now, we have to get back to them after vacation about taking the fence out. We'll see where it goes from there. Because they did an awful job, we found a new fence place, and they put in our neighbor sides.

We had to get the posts up before we could lay concrete so that we could have the concrete under the fence. So the posts went in.

And we cleared everything from the side of the house.

Leveled the dirt, put concrete down and leveled that, then tied all this rebar. Eric spent a TON of time leveling everything - it's a lot of hard work but worth saving $3000.

Larry, our neighbor who does concrete, helped us a TON as well. He was the one who convinced us we could totally do it ourselves.

We poured the concrete in two sections. This is the first - Phil's dad did concrete before, so he came to help since neither of the two neighbors we have who do concrete, could be there.

Brian also came and helped - and the concrete truck driver came out to give some pointers as well.

And tah dah! Serious kudos to Eric who got the entire thing finished himself because everybody left him. One half done - one to go.

Just kidding! Let's add some Tucker paw prints first. (Bad, bad dog.)

Then the same thing on the other half... but leave out Tuck's prints this time.

And tah dah! Our one neighbor, Greg, helped us do this side.

After the concrete was in, the fence could be finished. The pretty boxer in the above picture is Roxy's lover, Butch.

And everything done! :) We are finally starting to look good - no more white trash outside for us!

The fence in the back....
The side concrete we added so you can get out of your car and step on concrete.

Thanks to all those who helped with the concrete. It was a huge success!

More project blogs to come!