Dean's Blog

Well, happy times on the homestead. This weekend I test drove a new Volkswagen Golf, which was nice, as it feels like a car that was engineered by engineers and assembled in an actual factory, rather than by a bunch of farmers in a clearing. However I think I’ll wait until the new Jetta Wagon TDI comes out, if I can wait that long that is. I also popped down to Totem and dropped 3 grand of building supplies. Deck and fence (and siding on the shed) here I come!

I only have to build 2 sides of fence, which is nice, although the existing side that neighbor-dude put up is going to fall down in two years, due to cheap untreated construction. When that happens, it will be my turn, and I can get rid of that stupid lattice. I’m all for 12 foot high walls with electrified barbed wire and angry bees, but unfortunately everyone wants wimpy lattice up top and bylaws that mandate a 6.5 foot high fence and no higher. Not much in the way of privacy in this city. Anyhow, I have two weeks to get the post holes and pilings dug, which is going to be mostly by hired machine. I dug the post holes for my mom’s huge back yard when I was a teenager. Still have nightmares about that.

I really like the Volkswagen, and would have loved to have taken a GTI for a spin around the block, but I’m looking for something practical.