Yup, that’s right–he hobbled off in his “boot” to work this morning. It will be a slow week (mostly prepping the stone yard and getting stuff ready) but I’m sure it feels good to get things rolling again. 🙂
Now we adjust around here to our new normal again. That means the nanny will start coming again today and I need to have supper ready before I start teaching… etc. It’s all good though. Last week was so beautiful that it gave me renewed joy at being able to live here. I just love all of the trails and sidewalks that are accessible from our house. We went out for our exercise three times last week (it would have been more if I hadn’t been so sore after the first day!). I’m very excited for the kids to get out side and enjoy actually getting to run in our yard.
In other yard news, we’ve been looking into getting a fence. Well, actually we were looking in to a fence last week until this chaos with Tim’s foot and since then we’ve put a temporary stop on the fence until we know what’s wrong with his foot and how much that’s going to cost us… But we found out some interesting details about fencing here in Shakopee. Apparently there are a lot of hoops to jump through. We need to pull a permit for the fence plus all the different people (gas, property lines, etc.) have to come out AND we have to put the fence 10 feet back from the sidewalk because of the turn lane on the road behind us. Yikes! I was pretty bummed about having to push the fence so far into our yard, but I would rather HAVE a fence with less yard, then not have a fence with more yard. Does that make sense?
And you already know how easy the City of Shakopee is to work with… But it is common for the fence to have a set back from the property line. Makes mowing a hassle, though.
I hope they figure his foot out (or the pain just goes away on it’s own) soon.
are you restricted on planting hedges along the sidewalk? then you could plant to make the yard look larger than it actually is. your eye would be drawn to the plantings overlooking the fence.
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That’s a good idea, Dad. We’ll have to check on that. 🙂