Part of improving our home included clearing some stuff out of the garage. I've had some wood, paneling, and trim in there for a few years now - left over materials from some "professional" home improvement jobs. I pulled it all out of the garage, saved a few things to fix up some shelves in the garage, and gave the rest away. My wife suggested taking it to
Habitat for Humanity, so I called them up and asked if they wanted it. I also took the sliding glass doors, one of which had been propped up next to the fence to keep the dogs from jumping into the neighbor's yard.
That was apparently not a good idea. I thought that maybe the dogs had learned where home was and learned enough about staying in our yard not to go over there, but I was wrong. The next day, CeCe had jumped the fence and was getting some action from the neighbor's dog. Our dog is fixed, so I don't think there is a real concern there, other than our dog being disobedient and not coming back into our yard when I hopped the fence to get her. My wife said that if she had known I was taking "that door" then she wouldn't have agreed to it. She asked why I removed the door and I said, "I was just trying to clean up. It didn't look right." To which she replied, "Sometimes there's a thing as
too much cleaning up."
Since our house has had so many projects of varying success, we had a couple fence gates on the other side of the house that were just wasting away, so my wife suggested using those to block off the corner of the fence where the dogs could jump onto an electrical box to boost themselves up. Hopefully this will hold the dogs in, while looking a bit more like it's supposed to be there, instead of having a sliding glass door in the yard. It's not perfect, but none of the yard is at this point, so what can I do? It's going to take a lot of work to get this yard fixed up... including a lot of work that we have no idea how to do.
