After all of her adventures, Elphie is sacked out on the couch!
And what a good dog she was!
When we got out into the yard yesterday morning to check out the fence issue, here is what we saw.
From the fact that there was snow all over the surface of the fallen section, it was clear that it had actually fallen sometime early Saturday morning.
Why we didn't notice it then is beyond me --- chalk it up to being totally brain dead, or just frozen in place.
After trimming away tree branches (most of them not from our tree, but the neighbor's) and doing bracing and hammering and then literally using cord to tie some pieces together, the fence section is now standing upright again.
We have no idea just how old this fence is as it was here when we moved here in January 2002 (OMG -- 6 years ago!), but it is becoming clear that its going to be a problem now. We've heard from neighbors that the prior owner had collected on an insurance claim for the fence before she put the house on the market, but all she did was have someone do a piece meal repair, not replace it which is probably why we're having to deal with these issues now --- {sigh}
I guess at some point when warm weather arrives we'll have to do something about rebuilding parts of it ---
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