South Fence Border - Part 2

 Our goal today was to cement in the rest of the south fence border and to get all of the work done before lunchtime.  We succeeded!

We started early in mild temperatures.  The most difficult part of the entire job was hauling the 16 60-pound bags of cement mix that we used today from the garage to the back yard.  Those bags let us both know that we are getting too old to do these crazy jobs.

The mixing and shoveling of the cement went smoothly.  Thankfully, the cement mixer did all of the heavy work.  While Rick put down the new cement, I spent my time scrubbing the part of the fence that we finished yesterday.  I should have scrubbed off the splattered cement from the fence yesterday, but by the time we finished and put things away, we both were too tired to do anything. Thus, today I scrubbed while Rick shoveled and smoothed the new cement.

So we went from this:

The fence before the cement border...

to this:

and afterward. Now it just needs to dry.

We will be happy that we can simply edge the back yard instead of having the lawn service weed-whack the fence to pieces.

We still have the entire back (east) side of the fence to complete, but that will have to wait a while. We will get it completed, but we cannot even think of starting it until our lawn care service cuts the lawn on Monday.