Outside decorated

Sunday, 7:09 pm

By Kate

All the white icicle lights are hung along my front porch roofline. They are a few inches shorter than my neighbor’s, but after a day or two, they should relax and drop to their full length. The kissing balls are hung, but the wreaths still aren’t. Strangely, I didn’t have the right sized nails and didn’t feel like making a trip to the hardware store for two nails. I have every other size nail from tiny to crowbar size, but nothing in the mid-range. Tomorrow is soon enough. It looks pretty out there.

Meanwhile, we were supposed to install a new fence in the side yard yesterday, but after talking to the owner of the house next door (he rents the house out, doesn’t live there) and coming to an agreement about what we were going to do yesterday afternoon, I never saw hide nor hair of him nor the new fence sections. The couple who live in the house (saints on earth who have done more to make that place lovely than the owner ever did), took the weekend off expressely to do the fence. He was pretty unhappy about it.

Don’t know what I’ll do. I could just go with Mark (the renter) to buy the fence we want and help him install it, but I’d like some assurance that when I take the bill to the owner, I’ll actually see him write a check for his half. He’s a nice guy and all, but a few hundred dollars is a little more than I want to take on faith, under the circumstances. We’ll have to get it done soon or the ground will be frozen solid.