The dog was getting through the fence 9 times out of 10 so she was baffled and confused when she got shocked. The usefulness of the fence is destroyed by inconsistency, so the dog is going crazy trying to figure it out and is now afraid to go outside.
Round One to the dog.
We are now going out for bids on a standard Panamanian fence. The fence uses a footing with a couple of courses of concrete block and a chain link fence over the block. We may or may not put an electric wire on top of the fence.
The fence is not only for the dog. It is for security against theft too. Otherwise, we wouldn't build the fence. The fence will go around the house for about a 120 x 30 area, not the entire lot which would require 10 times this amount of fence.
I am waiting on the bids to see if we can afford it.
The Broadway Review saga also continues. Or as I call it, Cluster F$#@$# in Boquete.
Now the lady singing the duet with me won't talk to me.
That makes for an enjoyable time rehearsing...NOT.
Everything was going as well as could be expected at the last rehearsal, until the final 20 seconds. I mean, give me a break, we were almost done. When she started saying that I didn't think the song was any good. Then she unleashed a stream of insults.
I simply left without saying a word. Anything I would've said at that point would have escalated the issue.
And I was starting to think that the song was going to work...not be good but passable. Her acting was getting strong enough to blow through her lack of singing.
Just when you think it will be alright, it goes to hell! Must be my karma. All the evil thoughts I had for the preceding rehearsals.
This has been a party week with 2 more parties this weekend. All in all, a good week.
2 comments:
Hi Tom, a bit of experience on fence, for what it's worth. In Arkansas, EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING loves chicken - including feral cats, coyotes, foxes, domestic dogs, racoons, possums, skunks, hawks, owls, eagles, etc. I haven't seen a deer eating a chicken yet, but I am suspicious.. in any case, when I started raising chickens, and feeding the populace, I realized I had to build a fence that wouldn't fail. and, eventually, I did. the secret to dogs/coyotes/etc, digging thru was to countersink the fence a foot into the ground, and to also put a second piece, attached to the main fence at ground level, angling down at a 45 degree angle, on the approach side (digger's or predators side) of the fence. once they get stalled in several spots, they're done trying. I used a six foot high roll of wire fence with the rectangular cells (about 2" wide by 3 1/2" tall), so it yielded a 5' height. for raising chickens I also used regular chicken wire, stretched over the top, to keep out the flying predators (owls, hawks and eagles). Never had a ground animal get thru, except for a black snake, who likes chicks and eggs, too. The reason I remember all this, after about 10 years, is that I went to remove the fence, what I thought was an hour job turned into half-a-day tug-of-war with the fence and the earth... ugh! I am sure a sunk footer would accomplish the same, if You are not into trenching for the bottom of a fence. Good Luck, Tom. Darshan
Thanks Darshan, what a process to keep things in and other things out! It sounds like a lot of experience was required to keep the chickens alive. Panamanians must have figured this out too. There standard fence uses a footer with at least one course of block buried over the footer, then cyclone, chain link fence on top. I still haven't gotten any bids. It is slow going down here. Anyone worth asking for a bid is busy and dragging their feet on the bids. More in a week.
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