The Fence

Blake takes care of his mother's yard, and right in the middle of her back yard is a chain link fence. This fence has no reason to be there and Blake has tried to talk his mom into removing it for years, but she has not been ready. She had both sides of the entire fence lined with flowers and they were too much for her to take care of, so Blake finally succeeded in convincing her to let him take the fence out. They spent a lot of time in May and early June transplanting some of the flowers and plants. Finally on June 16th, the day arrived that the fence could be removed!

First, the chain had to be removed. Thank goodness Randy came to help. I'm sure Jared is sad to have missed out on this project, he has been teasing and trying to convince Grandma to let him take this fence out forever.

Next, they had to take the border out.

Then they borrowed a tractor and used it to pull out the posts.

They loaded up the posts into Blue.

Then they used the tractor to load up the remaining plants and flowers. Even Courtney got to drive the tractor.

Now it's time to rototill the ground. The tiller was exactly the right size and worked perfectly.

The last steps were to level the edges a little, then plant the grass.

As I was standing there with Grandma Purcell, she even admitted how good it looked and how much she liked it. I asked her if I could record her saying that because she had not wanted to have the fence taken out. It does look really good, now that the grass is coming up, you can hardly tell that there used to be a fence there.