Labor Day week-end really was a couple of days of labor for us. But it was a labor of love. We've been determined for awhile to get a decent gate across the road leading to what has become the family gathering place. Ryan and Sadie rented an auger and rounded up the supplies to do just that. They purchased a nice iron gate from Sadie's Aunt for a good price and 7 large railroad ties. drilling the fence post holes with the auger is much easier than with post hole diggers but it is still a strenuous job.
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| Sierra jumps in to check the depth. She is rather fearless. |
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| She says, "Its just right." |
I wanted to help but I'm afraid I'm not very strong and the auger actually freaked me out a little. Something about being close to a powerful spinning blade is a little intimidating. I helped Ryan with one hole and Sadie helped him with all the rest. That girl can WORK!
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| Sierra is there to oversee the work |
The first post got 3 bags of cement poured in because it will bear the weight of the gate. The others were deep enough to where the earth is put back in around the post slowly and packed down hard to hold it in place. Ryan and Sadie have done a lot of fence building and make an excellent work team of 2.
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| THE GATE!!!!!! |
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| Ryan loaned me his work chaps and I ran the gas weeder for the first time. |
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| I took a lot of pictures of this busy little cutie |
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| Fresh from her nap, Shasta enjoys the new gate with big sis |
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| Still snapping pictures of this smiley girl |
All this fence building and blackberry clearing is hard work so Sierra decides to relax with a soda. Thanks to Grandma Debbie there is a chair that is just Sierra's size.
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| Serious conversationalist |
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| Dirty face girl |
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| Shasta has her shovel and wants to help |
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| Shasta can't let her sister out do her with the dirty face |
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| Daddy is pretty cute with his fish shirt and his pants hung up on his boot |
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| So begin day two |
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| We didn't waste any time hanging out STAY OUT sign. It won't do any good though. Ryan said it will probably get torn down |
Once the posts were set and the gate was hung we took to clearing blackberries along the little creek
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| raking the blackberry branches into piles to burn this Fall |
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| Ryan and Sadie piled the branches onto the old gate so that they could attach it and pull it behind the truck to the burn pile |
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| Almost park like. |
