Gate

Taylor's dad, Larry, was in town for business. He had Friday off however, and he asked what he could do to help us around the house.

"Build us a gate," I said.

"Well," Taylor mused, "We could use some help with the car -"

"Build us a gate," I said.

"But the hot water heater is also having problems -"

"Build us a gate!"

In the end, Larry and Taylor decided to build a gate. Initially, they were going to use pre-built fencing material, but after seeing how low-grade it was, they decided to build the whole thing from scratch.

This is what I got to come home from work to. Needless to say, I was very pleased!



They bought pressure-treated planks, cut them in half, and dog-eared the top edges.

There were a lot of intricacies to the building of the fence, but you'd enjoy it so much more hearing it from Taylor, so I'll let you ask him about it.

It's a real improvement over the redneck chicken-wire setup we had, but the downside is that it emphasizes how bad our current landscaping is! But we'll get to that as time and funding permits.