This used to be our side yard, with a lovely white picket fence. Now the fence panels lean to one side, and the posts stand alone.
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Here’s a crooked view of the lot from the street. Off to the left you can see our existing duplex. To the right is a tree with leaves turning yellow…
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It’s the river birch. I like to put my hand on its smooth, cool, translucent bark.
Sadly, it’s not long for this world. That’s because it is growing in my future dining room.
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Oscar and Milo don’t mind. They like the wooden stakes with pink flags that the surveyors put in.
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When you get your land surveyed, you sometimes learn interesting things about your neighbor’s houses. This fence is actually a couple of feet inside our property line. The addition to the neighbor’s house, a little bit wider than the red door that enters it, goes right up to our property line. Not only do we own their sidewalk, we own the grime on their siding.
It’s not the neighbors’ fault. They bought the house with the addition already there. Mark talked to them yesterday and they struck a deal where we would let them keep a strip wide enough to get from front yard to back yard, and they would let us cut down one of the trees.
Sorry about the placeholding dots. I’m still trying to figure this out.
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