The Overgrown Years
&
The Fence
2001 was a strange year at 520 NORTH St. I started a landscaping project that would eventually lead us into having a fair portion of our house rebuilt. Suffice it to say that one thing lead to another when I started tearing out all the old junipers in our front yard. The photos below show some of the overgrowth that we built around in years past.
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I cut it all out, leveled the yard, tore out the old driveway and had a new, wider one poured. Made the whole yard wheelchair friendly and had it hydro-seeded. We used a whole bunch of landscaping blocks to create raised beds along the front that housed the fence for Halloween as well as Christmas.
We started building Sept 30th this time because October 1st fell on a Monday and we needed as much time as possible to build everything. This year we built only on the weekends. Made for some serious rush work but it came together nicely.
The fence this time out was 172' long. Longest we've ever had. This was all we wanted to get done on the first day. Build the fence, install the Archway of Agony, the Pillars of Pain, the gates and the fence. When you include the gates width into the setup we covered 187' this year. Even though the whole fence is PVC and foam no one ever intrudes. This is the third year we've left everything out unsecured behind this fence and no one has touched a thing. Someone did try to lift one of the 9' Pillars of Pain last year but since I stake them over 6' into the ground they gave up. There's a reason I use ladders when setting them up.
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