Working on the Mission House

Well, it isn't exactly work on the house, more like work on the land around it. Two Saturdays ago Steve spent the day repairing little things around the house and cleaning off the deck. What ever we did not know what to do with went on the deck. It was becoming a little messy. He has it cleaned off and nice looking.

About the pictures: he was going to wait until it was cooler to tackle some of the trees around here, but decided to go after finding the gate. The job took a lot longer than he expected.

The first picture is the found gate. It was totally covered in brush and you couldn't even see the white building in the back. The second picture is the pile of brush he and the kids cut and pulled off of the gate. The third picture shows the little path of grass between the gate and ripped up fence. The fourth picture shows the ripped up fence.

We were told that if we want we could have a dog, that the back yard is fenced in. Well, if we wanted a dog in the back yard the fence need to be fixed first. That is Steve's plan to fix the fence. In cutting down the brush he even found the top bar that was pulled off of the fence. We don't know what happened, but we can guess.

Our idea of what happened: The church hired a guy to mow the yard. He can't get his big mower in the back yard through the gate. It is a double gate and so his mower will fit, except that the one gate is covered over in brush. So instead of cutting the brush back, (which took Steve around three hours)(yard guy probably not paid for that) he ripped a cemented fence pole out of the ground make the back yard excess able to his mower.

On Steve's to do list: fix the back fence.