After a full week of near-constant jackhammering to remove all that patio concrete, the fence came down, giving me an up close and personal view of the project.
At about 4pm every day, the "privacy shielding" would go up, sometimes in a rickety manner,
and sometimes more robustly.
Somewhere in here, one of the other neighbors on our side of the fence started getting overly worried about the project; I spent several days convincing her that nothing abnormal was happening, no one was going to break into her house, and that everything would turn out just fine. The neighbors doing the project are reasonable, have given lots of notice, and don't appear to be asking anyone to pay their half of the fence, so I have no problems with any of it. Plus they bribed me by leaving cookies in our mailbox :)
It was a bit odd when the plastic came down at 7:30 in the morning while we were still eating breakfast, but I decided it was just entertainment. We call that back window the "kitty TV", and there was definitely out-of-the-ordinary programming on kitty TV for about a week and a half.
Cute little tractors,
a most excellent hole-digging augur,
dudes putting posts up,
dudes finding old concrete where they wanted to put new posts,
and eventually the beginnings of a fence.
It was a see-through fence for a day or so, but as I expected, it was filled in with more boards.
Now there is a very solid, very new fence along the half of the back yard that borders that neighbor.
I'm back to hearing lots of small tractor noises pretty much constantly, but no longer can see the progress unless I climb up the fence and peek over. Which I do occasionally... (lots of new trenches and a hole that looks like it might be for a water feature today)
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