The gate is coming along again

Steve finally found some time to get back to the fence this past weekend.  On Saturday he went full speed ahead but well, on Sunday, he got distracted and efforts went towards making the backyard entertaining ready. This week he plans to figure out what other pieces of wood he needs to complete the fence and I hope to get the cedar store on Thursday when I am without babe. 

Now we just need to pick up one more wheel since this fence is one big dude and is H-E-A-V-Y.  Also need to research some fence hardware to lock/open/close it since I am definitely not in like at all with the stuff at Home Depot.  I would really like something that allows us to open and close it from each side without having to do the little string rig up deal-e-o that you see on many simple gates. 

put on the first hinge without a problem

this is where the problem arose; Steve had to drill out the ground bracket in order to mount the lower hinge on top of the bracket....what a pain but ended up being a pretty easy fix

drilling a support bracket

and the gate goes up

you can so the spring/wheel hardware on the left side of the pix; getting ready to drill on the wheel

wheel #1-to put a second wheel on the other side to hold this big sucker up

there is about a 1/8" clearance on the ground with just one wheel attached

And another look at the gate (yes, we still have that huge pile of compost that we need to finish spreading)

We also made a trip to Mr. Plywood on Stark and found these fence post caps...I was eye-ing the beefier post caps, however, they don't work (And are at least $10 a pop more) as they will not fit with the clearance between the gate and the fixed posts and where the fence posts connects with the garage.  We simple need to level out all the posts and attach these toppers with a little construction adhesive.

And Steve's backyard progress...

Steve removed the rest of the pavers and small rubble and readied the area for some sod....lovely mud pit right now and my clean, mopped floors are already covered in doggy prints-motivation to get some sod STAT!

Steve added dug up portland potatoes rocks around the new bench and filled on with pebbles to cut down on dirt and mess

added more dig up rock around these pots which we plan to fill with Bamboo (more on that endeavor soon)

this is just funny as all these tall flowers sprouted out of nowhere and we kinda have a forest in the NW corner of our yard