Home improvement projects are a fact of life for the common Yuppie suburban-dweller with a family and a home that wasn't built to specification. Heck, even then my money is on some degree of change happening quickly...needs turn into hardware store familiarity and a desire for a lifetime supply of vidocin.
Over the past few months I've managed to stick a bunch of 4x4 posts in the ground (yes, in concrete - and yes, I know that's frowned upon by many) and erect six or seven panels that I'm reasonably happy with. Having never built a fence, or anything bigger than a large planting box, a fence was ambitious regardless of the design and desired outcome. Looking back, I can already see an endless stream of mistakes and setbacks that experience would have helped me avoid. And checklists. Especially checklists. Building stuff demands checklists and I can see why construction crews lean on them heavily. Heck, at least I can undo what I've fastened and fix my mistake without a digger or dynamite.
So what about the fence? Well, it works as expected. Children don't find it as easy to run away from home now. However, the gate latch has proven not difficult enough. What's more, the one year old has learned quickly that he can simply crawl under the gate, where I have removed the sod and it is not yet filled in with a new walkway. So the work continues...
No comments:
Post a Comment