So it’s been a week and a bit since I posted last, but most of that has been spent working, sleeping, and planning and stressing.  My husband and I have been working on the backyard oasis a little bit every day, but on Friday we spent the day outside getting ready to put in the new fence with the privacy slats.

The privacy slats are fairly easy to put in but are time consuming, as in I spend a lot of time putting them together and forcing them through the chain link fence (I have the blisters on my hands to prove it).  The back fence was only 3.5feet so it had to be replaced to a five foot fence, down it came (relatively easy) where my husband and Mark cut the internet and phone service to the neighbour.  Some Bell guy felt the best way to ‘bury’ the telephone wire was to weave it through the back fence.  A black cord through the bottom of the fence?  Yea that’s real smart.

So we called Bell, they came out very quickly and probably one of the kindest tech’s I’ve ever met in my life.  I don’t have his name and I’m hoping my husband does so I can e-mail Bell later and tell them of this wonderful employee and how he was so pleasant, humerous and kind.  I would have him here any day to do any work on my house.

Yesterday was also a beautifully sunny day at 26 celsius with the sun shinning bright.  I know the sun was shinning bright because my red and burning shoulders, tell me so.

Today my husband and father-in-law are out in the cloudy – could rain any minute – weather putting in the fence posts they didn’t put in yesterday and hopefully that means I’ll soon have a wonderful back fence again.  After that the two side gates have to go in and then it’s the patio.

Of course all this means more work outside making the oasis I’ll hopefully get to enjoy for a few months…

As for me, and my crispy shoulders, it’s a day indoors writing I think, nothing I can do outside so might as well make use of the day in the best way I can – writing a book.