Down Home

When we bought our house we knew we had one big project to complete: building a fence along either side of the driveway to A).prevent the horses from getting out of the front gate and B). Keep them from getting on our front porch.

We knew this was going to be a very labor intensive project, but would save us a lot of moola.

T designed our fence plans and we marked the placements for the posts, bought what seemed like a million cedar posts, metal posts, the wire fencing, and barbed wire. Oh, and about 50 80lb bags of concrete--I mixed each one.

One of T's subcontractors volunteered to come out and drill our holes...for FREE!!! What a blessing and big surprise.

The Hill Country is BEAUTIFUL, but also has lots of rock. I mean lots! It made drilling holes a little difficult, so we did hire an additional hole driller and got it done.






Then comes stretching fence. Over 1000 feet of fence and barbed wire.









Oh, we hired a welder because we're not welders. Notice his patriotic mask!



Sloan visited us on the porch a few times while the fence was under construction.





She looks pretty cute up there, right? What's not so cute is that she broke a table, knocked the rocking chairs over, and ate our plants.


The grass in our "front yard" also suffered. Before on the left and after on the right.









All done! A little over a week ago we finally finished the entire project!
It took a little over 2 years (no, we didn't work on it every weekend) and we saved over $6,000 doing it ourselves!! WooHoo!

What do y'all think of our fence?


--And that's Life With the Riley's--