Pictures of the Week

[other dog]

I've been fencing all week, except when I was watching TV- I had to watch the news in the morning, and sometimes Family Feud before I got started because it would be 25 degrees in the morning and in the 50's by afternoon. 

I put up new fence from the far corner of the chain link fence, out around the well, then down the hill and across, then back uphill to the house. I had much difficulty getting the wire tight with all the elevation changes, and putting up fences is not really my field of expertise.

The home made wire stretcher I made worked pretty good though.

We were going to pay a buffessional fence putter-upper, but couldn't find anybody that was interested. So my job might look crappy but I'm sure we saved a lot of money by doing it myself. 

It still wasn't cheap- 3 100' rolls of 4' wire, 20 metal posts, and a 6' gate were over $700. Then I went back and got 6 wooden posts and some other items for $139 more dollars.

All so these fellas will have more room to run.

They're watching the driveway people now...

I ran the tiller through the garden a time or two and planted a row of potatoes and a row of onions this morning too, before it started raining. Then I took the rest of the day off.

We also had the driveway biggerized. Zina's gotten stuck in the yard twice. I would have put a circle driveway in here at first if it was up to me, the driveway was kind of... weird.

And, in the "this doesn't have anything to do with anything" department, I ran across this picture today when I was looking for a different picture. I know we were talking a while back about how the propeller of a plane or helicopter looked like it wasn't moving in a picture. This is a picture I took of a chopper that was leading the "Truckers Against Cancer Parade" the year before last.

 

[Brocky]

So now Mack can only dig holes in half the yard??????????

[mowerman]

Looks good for it do it yourself or he has professionals would’ve been a lot more. Thanks for that time. Your weather doesn’t seem much different than it is here right now.

[mrsmackpaul]

Not a bad job on the fence

Normally strain that style of fence from the middle 

Tie it on at each end and pull it tight in the middle 

Then just over lap a foot or so and wrap each horizontal strand around each other

 

Paul

 

[other dog]

14 hours ago, Brocky said:

So now Mack can only dig holes in half the yard??????????

Oh no, now he's got a lot more room to dig a lot more holes. He dug a potato up to eat when I was trying to plant them.

We were going to take that section of the chain link fence out and move it to make the 3rd. side of the new fence, then they would have one big area to play in. But Zina said we should leave it, so now we can put them in the lower section and close the gates if we have peoples over for a cookout or stew. Then they can still be outside with folks instead of locked inside in the bedroom. 

[other dog]

5 hours ago, mrsmackpaul said:

Not a bad job on the fence

Normally strain that style of fence from the middle 

Tie it on at each end and pull it tight in the middle 

Then just over lap a foot or so and wrap each horizontal strand around each other

 

Paul

 

That's a good idea, I was thinking I might just cut it where there's a lot of slack in the top and splice it back together. The wire is tight at the bottom down on the lower side of the garden but the top is loose.

[mowerman]

5 hours ago, mrsmackpaul said:

Not a bad job on the fence

Normally strain that style of fence from the middle 

Tie it on at each end and pull it tight in the middle 

Then just over lap a foot or so and wrap each horizontal strand around each other

 

Paul

 

Thanks for that Paul I’ll probably never be doing it myself, but I was always wondering the proper method you just answered it. I had a bunch of fencing done around here. I just called the guy ha ha wood pickets…. Bob

[mowerman]

Yes, Mike two little dogs are apt to eat anything outside. That’s why when I’m grinding, the fiberglass, I sweep everything up in case they think about sampling some of it..bob

[other dog]

Here's the next to last truck I drove. It was sitting up at Truck Enterprises in Lynchburg after it was traded in on the last truck I drove when this picture was taken

. I'd bet they would be asking twice that much for that truck in that condition now, the way truck prices are.

This is the last truck I drove, identical specs. The only difference was the breathers on the outside, but it never seemed to run quite as good- almost, but not quite.

That Cummins pulled better than the Pete I used to drive with a 550 Cat engine, with the same transmission and rears.

[mowerman]

I was just thinking it looks like the same one.. bob

[mowerman]

I owned four trucks when I was a sub hauler not at the same time kept trading up, but I actually saw three of them after I got rid of them working was kind of exciting…  Bob