It's been weeks (months?) since I first started on the fencing project that'll provide a secure area for our dogs to use. Our land needed to be marked for post holes, a guy with a heavy-duty auger contracted to dig the holes in our extremely rocky terrain, posts put in holes when he was done to be certain all were at the same height, holes dug deeper with a post hole digger for the same reason, rails attached to posts, gate entryway posts cemented (after being positive they were absolutely level), gates attached, all posts trued to a perfect 90 degree angle and finally, chicken wire afixed to all so that the dogs will remain on our property.

All but the last two items have been completed for the area in the rear of our home. This is a huge tract of land (coming from a person who previously resided on a 50' x 100' postage stamp piece of property) and the work involved setting literally hundreds of feet of the aforementioned posts 'n rails.

Here's a picture of our new fence & one of the two 10' gates as you're looking at the left side of our home:

But this weekend I'll being truing up & afixing the chicken wire. I anticipate I'll be done & able to let the dogs free to run around by late Saturday/early Sunday. This'll be the first time they've been off-leash since early May when we left our prior fenced-in residence.

As noted in an earlier post, we're gonna have a celebration for the grand opening of our long-awaited canine playground here at the Presto Dog Phunny Pharm. Our four Shelties named Lyric, Lily, Declan & Maggie and big Collie namedDougie are going to enjoy their new environment so much! Maggie has never been off a leash because she came to live with us after we'd moved into our new home. So it's going to be especially pleasurable watching her romp through the grass with her fellow pack members.

Here's a shot of the yard with posts (way off in the background, right below the tree line in the picture) that have been trued to 90 degree, perpendicular angle:

I'll be taking loads of pictures so come on back for a gander.

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