Monday Mischief - A Basset Fence

This is where everyone from our crescent has been parking for the last 5 days. It's the park in front of our house.

Hopefully by the end of this week we will be able to get back in our driveways. One thing about it, we get lots of exercise carrying things back and forth from our cars to our houses!

We spent the weekend trying to stay on top of the weeds and just getting lots of yard work in general done. Freddie spent most of the weekend just trying to eat crud from the gardens.  So I had a little plan.

I took some bamboo stakes, a roll of twine and kitchen shears.  Guess what I made.......

.......a fence to keep basset hounds out of your garden of course!  Okay, maybe just Freddie.  Low (literally) maintenance and affordable! Yippee!!

"This sucks!"

"Come on! Come and play with me Gloria. (insert whining here) 

                                                         
                                                        "I'll even give you the advantage!"

"FREDDIE!! I said NO!"

"Fine.  I'm just going to go and eat a stick!"

"Look at me Momma!  I'm eating a stick and I didn't even have to go in your stupid garden to get it!" nom nom nom nom.....

"Ooooooo!  Look at me! I might poke my eye out!  Somebody had better stop me!"

"I mean it......oh rats, darn stick. Oooooo look...uh...ummm.....(yawn!)"

"Yeah, maybe I'll just have a little power nap. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......"

So I don't know who was up to more mischief, me putting up that lovely basset fence, Freddie and his stick or the construction workers and the mess they left us for the weekend! 

Monday Mischief - A Fence!

Yep, the only one getting up to mischief on the weekend was this guy.

Hubby,  putting our fence back up that blew down in February.

The weather was finally nice enough to dig the holes and get the posts in the ground on Good Friday.

By Saturday afternoon the rest of it was up. Yay!!

Fred and Gloria were so happy when there Daddy was done!

Now I don't have to stress about the hounds getting out of the yard anymore!  :)

Thanks to Alfie's Blog, Snoopy's Dog Blog, My Brown Newfies and Luna, A Dog's Life for hosting this blog hop.

Monday Mischief - Chickens?

No we didn't get any chickens.  Although that might not be a bad idea.  Naw, I've got enough on my plate dealing with Fred!  It's been upsetting for Fred not being able to run around in the backyard and play, especially after are walks.  When we get home from our walks, I usually let Freddie and Gloria off their leashes in the backyard and they run and play for about 10-15 mininutes before we go inside.  This helps get Freddies excess energy out.  Since our fence blew down we have been listening to constant sighing and whining from Fred.  He just comes and puts his head on me and sighs.

"But why Momma?" "Why can't I go out and play?"

Long loud sighs, over and over.  This really motivated hubby to get out there in -10 C and rig something up to block off the opening where the fence fell over.  It also got him away from Fred and his constant whining!

Now it is done!  It might not be pretty, but it works for now.

It's chicken wire we had behind the shed. Hence, the reference to chickens! Thankfully the ground wasn't completely frozen because of the up and down temperatures we've been getting.

So I finally let Freddie out without his leash.  First he went over and checked out the makeshift fence.
Then...........

 Gloria was back to running for her life!

They ran and played for about 15 minutes until Gloria had enough and her feet got cold.  Of course Fred acted like it was the first time in his life he'd ever run free.  After Gloria went in, Freddie did his last couple of circuits around the yard.

I think I could almost here the music from the movie Born Free playing in the distance.  Always the drama Queen King.  Then he went in the house........

.....and crashed for the night!  YES!  We got to sit and watch our Saturday night at the movies on TCM in peace and quiet.  It was great!

The Fence

I really am a believer that everything happens for a reason.  Tuesday it poured rain all day so I took Freddie out on his leash all day to go potty so he wouldn't come in covered in mud.  By supper time the rain stopped and the wind picked up to about 90 km per hour.  I took Fred out for a pee and this is what I found.

Part of our fence had blown over.  I instantly had a flashback as this is what happened when our late Basset Barney broke his leg.  You can read about it here. And see him in his cast here.  So thankfully I had been taking Freddie out on a leash instead of just letting him out the door.  Either of the hounds could have gotten hurt or caught a scent and took off.  Really this would only be Fred, he'd be gone in a second.  Gloria....no......she just doesn't go to far from me.

This is what it looked like Wednesday morning as it snowed overnight too. Yes, those are condos they built behind us in what used to be a park!  Hubby was in North Bay for work when this happened so it has had to sit like this until tonight.  Then he will have to go and knock it down and take it apart.
Well, until we get something rigged up for the rest of this winter (if that's what you can call this crazy weather) Freddie has to be tied up to go outside. No more running around enjoying play time in the backyard.  And oh boy, is Freddie ticked!
 

"This sucks!" "I hate my life!!"
"Oh Fred, stop it."  "It will only be for a short time."

"I don't care!!"  "I'm never going outside again!"

"For gosh sakes Freddie, shut up I'm trying to sleep!"

Yesterday my computer also decided to go all wonky!  Finally I just walked away until this morning.  I had to go in and restore it to a previous date and this seems to have fixed things.  Yippee!