I just read your entry tonight; I just finished hauling in monster hanging ferns and two amazingly heavy potted bamboo plants, because it's going to freeze here tonight, too. I should have harvested the basil, but I got lazy (and cold.)
Anyhow, I am getting fence estimates this week, and so far, they're all coming in at about seven thousand dollars. Which might as well be seven million dollars. I have a good friend who I could hire to build my fence for me, and I know he'd do an excellent job, and I'd rather give him a wad of cash than some anonymous fence company, but I swore off hiring friends when I was an art director. I don't think I want a fence that badly.
The cement in the back near the alley was installed by the goon that previously owned the house. He'd planned on putting a detached garage back there (which stumps me, because there's a perfectly nice attached garage, but what do I know about cars and garages) but he never got around to doing anything but having concrete poured.
At first it rankled me, but now I am happy about it; when the Someday Fence happens, it's going to make a wonderful outdoor room of some sort (see diagram.) I intentionally made the willow path lead directly to it; it will be invisible from the house, but it'll eventually be a lovely courtyard at the end of the dreamy willow road. I am constructing a copper-pipe 'tunnel' (think six connected arbors) along the willow path, with lights suspended the whole way overhead. It'll match the copper pipe gazebo thing at the base of the deck, and all of the other copper arbors/trellises I've already made.
I have plans to make a fountain of sorts at the end of the willow path, on the foremost edge of the concrete, so that you can see it from the entrance to the path. Eventually, I'll put cobblestone down over the concrete, too.
But first, I have to find a way to fund the fence. I just refinanced and paid off all of my credit card debt, so I am disinclined to finance anything credit-wise, but we'll see. I am wavering.
Anyhow, I am getting fence estimates this week, and so far, they're all coming in at about seven thousand dollars. Which might as well be seven million dollars. I have a good friend who I could hire to build my fence for me, and I know he'd do an excellent job, and I'd rather give him a wad of cash than some anonymous fence company, but I swore off hiring friends when I was an art director. I don't think I want a fence that badly.
The cement in the back near the alley was installed by the goon that previously owned the house. He'd planned on putting a detached garage back there (which stumps me, because there's a perfectly nice attached garage, but what do I know about cars and garages) but he never got around to doing anything but having concrete poured.
At first it rankled me, but now I am happy about it; when the Someday Fence happens, it's going to make a wonderful outdoor room of some sort (see diagram.) I intentionally made the willow path lead directly to it; it will be invisible from the house, but it'll eventually be a lovely courtyard at the end of the dreamy willow road. I am constructing a copper-pipe 'tunnel' (think six connected arbors) along the willow path, with lights suspended the whole way overhead. It'll match the copper pipe gazebo thing at the base of the deck, and all of the other copper arbors/trellises I've already made.
I have plans to make a fountain of sorts at the end of the willow path, on the foremost edge of the concrete, so that you can see it from the entrance to the path. Eventually, I'll put cobblestone down over the concrete, too.
But first, I have to find a way to fund the fence. I just refinanced and paid off all of my credit card debt, so I am disinclined to finance anything credit-wise, but we'll see. I am wavering.
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