Sunday, September 23, 2012
Gates and Fences
This summer, I had a tizzy fit because the gate kept sticking, so I yanked it off it's hinges and threw it on the ground. We had no gate all summer.
But Bob fixed it.
He took out the gate post which had rotted so that it wasn't straight - the cause of the sticking - and cleaned out the concrete hole, and put in a new post. This took forever because the previous one had been in cement, and so the chunk of cement wasn't removable, he had to scrape the bits of old post out of the cement that was there. :(
Then he had a tizzy fit because I wouldn't let him buy new sawhorses, so I took the old gate apart and made a new one.
Then Bob took off the old fencing, and remade the fence to be 6 inches lower than it had been, with a bit of space between the boards. And he put the "new" gate on.
And now it all works! And we can see over it, and open it, and it doesn't stick, and we can go in and out.
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You and Bob are really, really funny. Both the tizzies and the Eyeore balloon make this little blog great!
Andrea,
I really like this piece of writing. I can't think of any of your writing that I don't enjoy. May I suggest, however, that you edit the title to read "Fences and Gates." I think the rearrangement will better fit the structure of the story. Especially since it ends on a "hinged" note.
Miss you. I'd really like to begin a correspondence - my life has been amazingly hectic. Not much time for reflection ... but I've been able to do some good reading over the break. Cheers to you and your family ... kat
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I really like this piece of writing. I can't think of any of your writing that I don't enjoy. May I suggest, however, that you edit the title to read "Fences and Gates." I think the rearrangement will better fit the structure of the story. Especially since it ends on a "hinged" note.
Miss you. I'd really like to begin a correspondence - my life has been amazingly hectic. Not much time for reflection ... but I've been able to do some good reading over the break. Cheers to you and your family ... kat
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