If you ever wish you had a bigger yard, let me tell you, don’t. Our new fencing experience, while not standard as it’s 2.4m tall, has cost us, wait for it, $8,000. Yes, that is as depressing as it sounds.

We had no real choice as we had to high a massive shed on our neighbours boundary and I wanted to hide all the crap on at the back of the block. Once brief discussion with the kids agreed that chooks would indeed be far greater than the trampoline they haven’t used since a month after they bought it. SO. Looking for a barely used trampoline in the Adelaide area???? Going cheap!! :/

I am also more than a bit thrilled that we can now get chooks again, and a fruit tree to shade them. Yes, putting gravel down for the chooks, thank you Jansens. We also have four blue poles that we can now install our shade cloth on. YAY! No endless sunscreen applications to swim. It will be something like what you see below…

Brett is of course doing an exceptional job of this, and when it’s all done it will look stunning. The fencing matches the pool coping but will be covered by the lovely plants described last night anyway.

The glass fence will meet here with the shade pole and it will all be seamless. I’ve always read the most important thing in a garden is to make sure the boundaries look good and consistant, so you eye doesn’t go to them as a feature. So, after all that money, at least we will have that. RIGHT?!?!?

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