New fence

At the beginning of the summer, a strong wind and rain storm came and knocked down our back fence. We had to wait until the end of July before we could afford to buy the materials to replace it. It is finally complete!! Last weekend (Aug 14) Mike Bayron and Jon Nielsen (our home teachers) as well as Robert and Jared Mortensen came to help. They chopped down several trees before putting in the fence posts. It was humorous to me to come home from running errands and to see 5 men in the back yard being "manly" with chain saws. Originally, they were only supposed to chop down the large aspen that was in the middle of our yard and had been dead since we moved in. Well, then they had to get rid of all the little dead ones around the perimeter of the yard. Oh, and then there were some along the fence line that might cause problems. How grateful I am to these men and the overflowing of testosterone because our yard looked great once they were done. We just had to wait for the posts to set and "cure" before finishing it.



Today, my brother Ryan and the full time missionaries serving in our ward came to nail up the planks. Thanks to my brother Jeremy who lent us his nail gun and air compressor, they were able to get it done quickly.