The fence is up

The fence went up between May 6 and 9, 2009. It was done by Hulver Fencing of Concordia, Missouri. I was very pleased with the quality of their work, their speed, and the price. I'd recommend them highly to anyone looking to put in a fence in this area. These photos were taken on May 13.

I love the way the pickets set off the front of the house. When I walk out the front door, I expect to see Angela Lansbury ride up on her bicycle.

Here's the view inside the fence. It has the feel of a new room on the house.

This magnolia used to just sort of hang out in the corner of the yard. Now it has a presence!

Here's the north side of the house. Notice the lack of surprise lilies. They and a lot of the rest of the vegetation in the yard was done in by the tractor. The stick in the window well? A snake escape ladder. Lloyd found snake bones when he cleaned out the well one day and decided it couldn't get out. I've seen them slither right up a wall, but the ladder stays.Going on past the window well along the north side, the 6' privacy fence comes into play. The "nice" side of the fence is on the outside of the N and S walls. The nice side of the E fence is on the inside because it came so close to the old carriage house that the fencers couldn't get between them to nail up the boards. The carriage house has been taken down, but it didn't happen until a couple of weeks after the fence went up.

Another view of the NE corner. The little trees are the Japanese maple, white and pink dogwoods (left to right). The tree in the corner is the flowering crabapple, and the trunk to the right is another elm. There are two trunks sort of intertwined. It has been dubbed the kissing tree.

The east fence from the patio with the big oak at left.

This is the SE corner with the Bradford pear. The dumpster which will haul away the demolished carriage house is being delivered.

Here's a longer shot of the dumpster delivery. The corner behind the shed is very private and cozy. Something special needs to go there, but I'm not sure what.

The south fence makes a nice backdrop for the garden. The privacy fence transitions to the pickets where the old picket gate was.

The rest of the south fence, toward the street (west) brings us nearly to the front again. The bricks were under the old gate. They'll be take up and end up somewhere else in the yard.

A quick trip to the back yard so you can see the faint ring of dying grass around the big oak. This photo was taken a few days later. One of the landscapers said that would be the way to kill off the grass to clear the area for flowers. It's a lot faster than pulling the grass by hand. I'm all for Mother Nature, patience, and a liberal dose of Round-Up doing the work for me. At this point, the statue is still leaning against the tree.