Did I mention I'm lovin' the new camera so much I ordered my sister one like it as an early birthday present? Great pictures from something I can carry in my shirt pocket so it's with me a lot.

These are mainly for Fight4TheRight and his friend who'll be here the first weekend in June. Here's a look at our 2nd project, right after assembling the swingset that will be here sometime this week. In the foreground on the right you see a gate post with an 8' gate on it, folded back against the fence in the open position. Farther away, near the center of the picture, is a roll of fence wire still attached to the post it's sitting next to from when we tore down the fence between "Pasture 1" and "Pasture 2." We'll be planting another gate post about 16' from the one that's there now and hanging another gate on it so the two gates close nose-to-nose to close the opening between the posts. Then we'll drive steel posts at appropriate intervals between the new gate post and the post the wire's attached to and roll the wire out to complete the fence between the barnlot, on the right, and the pasture, on the left.

Here's our next project if time and weather permit. If you look close (it's easier to see if you click the pic to see it bigger) just to the left of that bush in front of the power pole you'll see some pink flags on a post marking the corner of our property. As you can see, it's still somewhere between 80 and 100 feet from the current east fence (running left to right in the picture) and that corner. What we'll be doing is extending the north fence (the one with the wooden posts) almost down to those flags and the back fence to a point straight south of the new end of the north fence. Then we'll build a new east fence and tear the existing one down.

If time and my budget permit after those two projects are done we can start adding rails to the north fence.

I think we may have set a new record in short-distance phone calls when Brad and Chad decided they were ready for a lunch break. I was sitting at my computer in the bedroom and Chad called me from maybe 20' away to tell me they were leaving for a little bit. Does anyone but me remember life before electronics?

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I guess I'm still not much of a botanist. This is new growth about 3 feet from the trunk of my favorite tree and I have no idea what prompted it to grow there. Not complainin', just wonderin':

Brad had family obligations so he and Chad only worked about 5 hours today, which suited me fine. I feel like I got enough "out and about" yesterday to last me about three days.

I wish I'd realized how many roots the guys were messing up with that backhoe sooner and routed the trench for the freeze-proof hydrant farther from the big tree in the corner of the yard. I don't think there's any danger of it dying from what we did but if it blows over in a big wind storm anytime in the next 10 years everyone, including me, will consider it my fault.