white picket fences

Well since the last post, we've got some great tenants in the front unit, and we've been working on things in front and in back. In particular, we hired our gardeners to install a picket fence in the front yard for the tenants. They did a great job with that, but they didn't paint it white. That was up to us.

So we did that a few Saturdays ago. It was really hard work actually. There are so many surfaces on a picket fence, many more than on a regular wooden fence, because you paint the sides of all the pickets, and all the inner corners, and the two rails.

Well, it was a lot of work, and it made me think that that's why white picket fences are so iconic. Because they take so much work to maintain, they're a symbol of successful suburban domesticity. Color us domestic I guess.

We are stepping out of bounds a little bit though, because we're growing an avocado tree and a salsa garden in the front yard. It's well known that you can't grow food in a stereotypical American suburban front yard. What are you, some kind of hippy? :-)

We're getting ready to redo the side fence too, which I think will really start the ball rolling on more yard projects for our part of the yard. We have plans. Big plans. Well I do anyway. So far Annie's going along with them. ;-)