100 Posts! + Fence

I hit 100 posts! And it only took two years!

Anyway.

Our house's south-west side has always been notorious for its hideousness (dat a word?)


That's our house's view on Google Maps. The hedge was trimmed (It was way worse), but not yet cut.

Last summer we cut the bushes (they were very thorny, so it hurt a lot), and we lost all privacy! We decided that eventually we would put up a fence, or something. Our friend Jose helped us level the dirt that was left over, and to get rid of some stubburn roots.

This summer we finally decided to go ahead and put up the thing. As part of the preparations we had to get rid of the old chain link fence's posts. Some were easy to remove, but one of them was ridiculously hard. This is why:

Once we were ready, I dug the post holes, put up the posts, and cemented them down.



The next day I put the beams across. It took me a couple of days, because I had to make sure that they were straight (leveled), and the distance between each post was different, so I had to measure the beams and cut them individually.

Meg then helped me put the pickets, so that went pretty fast. We finished in less than a day.

My problem with the fence is that, although it looks nice (especially from inside), it looks kind of boxy and somewhat boring. Fortunately (sarcasm alert), the city inspector finally decided to drive by the house and gave us a citation telling us that the fence is not up to the city code, because if it is by the sidewalk, it can't be higher than 4 feet. If we want it to be 6 feet, we need to set it back 6 feet. But it makes sense that, living in the bussiest corner of the city, the inspector would never see the fence as we were building it, but only ONE DAY AFTER we finished it.

Of course.

So now we have to go to the city, talk to the inspector, and set the fence back, or cut it down to 4 feet.

And there goes our new found privacy.