They have also, in their wisdom, agreed to pick up lawn debris (grass clippings, old plants, etc.) every week rather than every other week, and have provided a big bin on wheels for that, as well (yay!). All the lawn debris, by the way, is composted, and available for any resident to pick up and use -- if you have a truck you're willing to fill with compost.
However, this means that now we have three big bins (including the garbage bin, which is the same size) to store in the yard. We're going to put them all just outside the side door, next to where the garbage is now - however, there is a fence there -- or there was until Saturday. (The photo on the left shows the old garbage bin alongside an uprooted bit of fence, where the other bins will be stored.)
HomoDommi simply dug some new post holes, and extended the fence about 12 feet towards the front of the house. We've been meaning to do this since last fall -- for the aesthetics of it, not the bins, which weren't announced until early summer. We had purchased the pickets and primed them last fall, but as with many things, aesthetics got stalled in the Sargasso Sea of winter and other projects, and it took the winds of practicality to finish the job.
Before and after, as of today, at least.
HomoDommi and FemmeDommi started on Saturday, hours after the new bins arrived. We finished with everything but the latch and the painting yesterday afternoon. (I was supposed to paint today, but instead I prepared and made Walnut Liqueurs.) I'll post a better before-and-after photo after the painting is done. (We're doing planting on the side of the house, too).
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