Site Work: Finished Fencing the Site

I finished fencing the site today. I had Josh's help. It was a lot of work. I don't have all of the property fenced, of course. That would've take a lot of money and a lot of effort. We have neither at this time (even with the extra help). However, we now have the job site fenced. We took the dogs out this afternoon and let them run the fences. We're not going to leave them unsupervised yet, because there's still a lot of elevation changes along the fence, where there are gaps at the bottom and the dogs could go under. I plan on putting some rocks in those areas to fill the gaps.

There's a 3 feet opening between the carport and the current house. I plan on putting a walk-through gate there, but for the meantime, that's just closed off to keep the dogs in. I'll buy a gate on the way home from work one day this coming week, and I'll install it.

We also managed to put the "sock" over the french drain flexible pipe. This will allow water into the pipe, but not dirt. Having this pipe prepared, we'll be able to clean out the trenches and install the pipe, then backfill. It'll be good to finally have that stuff done. And keeping the immediate area of the house drained, is a good thing. There's still more french drain to put in all around the house itself, but at least we're closer to finishing those tasks, than we were.

I still need to get someone out to get our utilities run to the house. Just saying it doesn't get it done. The fact is, more trenches have to be dug, and unfortunately, we have to avoid hitting lines we already have in the ground. So it's a bigger job than it sounds like. We've had plenty of free "advise" telling us what we're doing wrong, but the way I see it, we're not on a schedule, and so we can't be doing it wrong. If we rushed and hit one of our existing lines, that would be doing it wrong.