One of the reasons we wanted a house was so that we would no longer have to escort our dogs outside to go to the bathroom. It's kind of lame. Especially when it's raining, snowing, freezing, and early in the morning when, you know, you don't have clothes on. Also the idea of being able to just kick the dogs outside and let them run around and entertain themselves when they're being rambunctious was heavenly.
Fast forward to buying a house, it was almost perfect. Almost. There was even a great little park outside past our yard for the neighborhood to share. Problem with this shared park is that there is an ordinance that there are to be no fences to be built around the park. NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
When we first looked at the house we met a neighbor and asked him if we were allowed to build a fence, he said it wasn't allowed but that they had discussed changing that at some of the homeowners association meetings. So we had hope.
We had been in our house for about a year and we were SO over this no fence business. Especially with Porter puppy who was quite a handful in the potty-training department. So we went through the process of writing to the HOA and filling out the required paperwork, then we waited. And waited. Finally, we got a letter in the mail. We were approved!
(Am I the only one who always hears the Target lady's voice when someone says "Approved!"?)
Anyway, we were underway. We bought our fence at Lowe's and with the most generous help of our friends Chris Heinz and Josh Thomas it was built in no time. Thanks guys!
Here is Chris and Leah's son Owen standing in a hole for one of the posts.
Here it is finished, a nice black aluminum fence so it still feels open. Looking at this picture it kind of looks like a doggy prison, but really it's nice. Promise.
