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Project 2: Cut off all the limbs of the serviceberry tree that were damaged (from a fire at the house next door last year) or otherwise sucking energy from the healthy branches.

Here’s a before and after:

Serviceberry Tree Before

Serviceberry Tree After

My key project today: What was once the bottom section of a years ago dismantled water feature at the edge of our deck is now a beautiful container garden with native grass and flowers…

Before:

Empty water feature

After:

Container garden 1

Container garden 2

Finished the rebuild of the east side fence today at our Summit House.

Here’s a layout of the before, during, and after:

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Work on doing the same on the west side will begin next year. Hopefully, it’ll hold until then.

Old meets new…

Used up all of the reclaimed wood I could salvage from the old fence panels. Got new cedar to finish the job.

In about 3 years, the new ones will weather to match the old ones.

Example: Here’s some new ones I installed last year next to some reclaimed…

Fence rebuilding at our Summit House continues. Thanks to the help of young Aidan (who is Beatrix’s partner in Double Trapeze at Circus) I was able to make much progress today…

Long fence posts and verticals without fencing boards

The steel posts provide extra stability in case of the posts rotting/failing…

Fencing posts and verticals with detail of steel supports.

Build back better!