After a day and a half of stretching chain link fence and twisting fence ties, etc., my fingers are about worn to the knubs. Needless to say, the fence project is as completed as its going to get for now. We have a way to keep Rebecca from wandering down the alley and visiting our neighbors' backyards. Not that we would not want Rebecca to visit our neighbors, mind you.

I've never really lived in a place where people did not put up privacy fences. It's nice on the one side, because you can really get to enjoy your neighbors. For instance, the people we bought our house from actually live two doors down from us! The house we bought from them was actually a house they had purchased for their daughter and her husband, who was getting out of the army. They lived here for awhile, then built a house outside of town. So, we happened along. We looked at the house back in July, just before we started our new jobs, then looked at fifty others and nothing compared to space and livability as does this one. But, the one thing we needed was a fence for our backyard.