A Fruitful Labor Day

Labor Day brought a lot of laboring around here! For a while now, we have needed to replace a portion of our fence. There have been several temporary fixes, like rope wrapped around the rotting wood trying to hold it together, but since Zeke has been regularly following us down the street even though we put him in the backyard, we knew it was finally time. Rope will only hold a fence together for so long. So, Jim's day off arrived and he went to work. Paul (Jim's dad) came over bright and early and helped with the fencing project all day long. Thanks, Paul! The job, of course, had its hard parts, like cutting down some trees that were in the way, and its frustrating parts, like 4 trips to Lowe's, but overall went well. My job basically consisted of keeping the kids busy and somewhat out of the way. The boys did help some and really enjoyed it. When things weren't moving as fast as the kids wanted, they went looking for other things to entertain themselves. Aflac provided some of that entertainment. At one point during the day, Troy and Paige came running up to Jim, calling "He caught him! He caught him!" Jim turned around to see Trent walking up holding his bug net in front of him. (This bug net has an opening about 7 or 8 inches in diameter.) In the net was.....Aflac! (Not a frozen chicken as Paul originally thought!) We are not sure how Trent got him in there because he is definitely a large duck, but when Trent puts his mind to something you never know what might happen. Duck escapades aside, the fence got replaced and we once again have a safe place for Zeke to stay. (For which Aflac is extremely grateful!)

The old fence

Jim and Paul hard at work

Aflac after being rescued from the net

The new fence