For the record, I am not talking about the size of my stomach even though the words huge and ginormous could apply to it as well. We just completed, with the help of a local fence builder, an expansion of our backyard. When we moved in we always said at some point we would put up a new fence as a safety precaution. Our house backs up to an alley that people seem to think is an interstate with the corresponding 65 mph speed limit.
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A not so good shot of the before from last summer--it does show how the yard was divided though
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The new backyard--we (meaning Jeremy of course) still have to remove the old sidewalk that ran alongside the chain link fence. The new sandbox will be here Friday and sometime in the next 6 weeks we will have the swingset. No, it isn't that grand of a set, there is just going to be a slight delay in construction since the job foreman will be busy elsewhere.