Day 3000

 I woke up at 8 again today.  Ellen finished letting the dog out and feeding the animals.  Then she came back to bed.That gave me an excuse to stay in bed and play games.  I did that until after 9.  Then it was up for breakfast.

After breakfast i did a little surfing.  It was pretty warm, so I went out to fix the hole in the fence that Abby used to get into Lee's yard.  I wasn't sure where it was, so I just headed out past the playhouse.  As I got near the house the going got tough.  There was a lot of dead branches and close packed trees.  When I got to the fence I was by the place behind Lee's.  I started walking towards his place.

Just before I got there I found a place where two wooden fence posts had rotted through at ground level.  They weren't much of a barrier.  I fought my way out of the woods to the garage.  I got a hammer, staples, and the pruning shears.  I used the shears several times to cut a path through the underbrush.  I got back to the fence posts and stapled them to the fence.  It's kind of temporary, but it's all I could do.  Then I resumed walking towards Lee's part of the fence.

I found a place where there was a little gap under the fence, but not enough for a dog to get through.  I piled some rocks along it to prevent future problems.  A little farther on I found the real hole.  It was directly across from Kai's kennel.  It was big enough for Abby to get through, but just barely.  Luckily there were a lot of rocks on the surface nearby.

I spent quite a while lining about 12 to 15 feet of the fence line with rocks.  I piled them high enough to deter more digging.  I was tired and sweating by the time I was done.  I finished walking the line over to the gate. There weren't any other potential trouble spots.  Then I returned everything to the garage and went back inside.

I was tired.  I surfed until lunch and then surfed some more after lunch.  I just didn't have the inclination to work on the Defender shocks.  I did take Abby out to the garbage with me.  She immediately headed for the fence with Lee as soon as I started up the driveway.  She came back when I was at the gate.  She had obviously been searching for a way through the fence.

Ellen left for the club and I went back to surfing.  After dinner (frozen) I switched to videos for the rest of the evening.