The Continuing Saga

It helps to have a sense of humor and I think I found mine today. That could change in an instant, of course, but I have been highly amused today.

The Fence: 4 sections of 6 foot stockade in the back part of my yard, which gracefully curves down to meet a many-section-length of 3 foot picket fence.

The Repairs: Technically, only one section of stockade fence is damaged. But we have all decided that rather than replace stockade fence with new stockade fence, we will replace the entire length of fence along the property line with new 3 foot picket fence.

The Problem: The landlord for the house on the other side of the fence is neither handy nor inclined. Just doesn’t really care, but feels he has to do something.  I’ll give him credit for that. However, his idea was to replace the entire length of fence with 4 foot fence which is a foot taller than the fencing that runs across the front of both our properties. It would look stoopid. He had a great deal going with the 4 foot fence. I said NO. He didn’t like that.

The Update: Today he dropped off 3 sections of 3 foot picket fence. That’s the repair. That would leave us with 3 lengths of new picket fence, one section of 6 foot stockade fence and the remaining many lengths of differently styled 3 foot picket fence.

I can’t decide whether this was a passive aggressive move or he really is that daft.

In any case, Mark, his wife, and I agreed today that the existing fence will easily survive winter and we will attend to a proper job done in the spring. And if the landlord arrives to install his 3 sections of fence tomorrow morning, I will personally smack his hands with a ruler. This is so not happening.