Hi, The Final Resolution (maybe): In the previous three posts I outlined the history behind the erosion in my back yard and the steps I had taken to try to solve that problem. No matter what I did, my back fence kept falling in the ditch behind my house, but by the last post I …
Hi, The Partial Resolution: In the previous posts, I detailed the issues that had been weakening the ground underneath my back fence (and all of the other nine houses on my side of our cul-de-sac), and talked about the first three times I had the fence rebuilt. The latest (only partially successful) solution involved installing …
Hi, In the previous post, I covered some of the background about why the land is eroding under all of the back fences on my side of our cul-de-sac. This post is about what I went through to try to fix the problem permanently. In 2016, a year after we believe the ditch behind our …
Hi, I’ve mentioned the problems we have had with our back fence several times before. It looks like they might finally be resolved sometime this year. I’ll be telling this tale in three posts so it won’t end up as a single book-length screed, and I’ll spread it out over the space of three months …
Newsletter 042 – July 14, 2023 Hi, A few of those “life’s little interruptions” I mentioned in some previous newsletters have appeared without warning, so I’m pushing the next “jobs” newsletter (#3 of 10) off for a couple of weeks so I can slip in this extra newsletter about a few things that happened recently. …