Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00439

Allison came home from school yesterday and brought me outside. “Look at this,” she told me as she showed me the corner post of our fence. She suspected that someone backed into it but it wasn’t that. The fence is old, it has been under stress for a long time because of the Wisteria that grows every year. some of it has grown right through the fence and bowed it out and choked it. so much stress was put on the fence where parts leaned this way and that and where it could not simply bend or lean it completely snapped.

It is sort of fitting for the state of the world right now. Schools are closed for the next two weeks. The kids are anxious. Stores are being cleared out of everything. We joke about it when the snow comes but when something major like this comes along it is insane. I’ve been in a few stores and I’ve seen completely empty aisles. Things that we have been taking for granted are not going to be there. So we are all under stress.

Will we break or will we bend.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00339

I noticed on Tuesday that the fence between our house and Whiskey Tango-ville had a big gap. Well, since I did not want to recreate the scene from a Christmas Story where the Bumpeses’ dogs were running rampant over the Christmas dinner I had to shore up the gap. The problem was that this time it was because of the tree growing at the end of our garden. It started growing there when we moved in and I let it go. It would be nice to have a nice new healthy tree giving us some privacy. The tree, however, found the fence to be in the way so it moved the fence. The ground is too hard to go digging any new post holes so for now I have a spare piece of wood spanning the gap with a bungie cord keeping it in place. We’ll have to see what we can do once the Spring comes around.