Three Down, Apparently

When I ordered emergency fence repair stakes from Amazon, I ordered a box of four just in case I needed more than the one I expected to need. It turned out to have been one of my better choices lately.

I had been told that we had lost one post that took out two panels. That understated the situation, because when I got out into the back yard, I discovered that the two posts on one side of the gate had blown out as well, leaving the gate hanging open and that panel falling over into the shrubbery as well. Oh. The panel was in fine shape, because it had been attached with the new brackets instead of toe-nailing, which suggests that those new brackets are definitely the right solution.

Well, I had more stakes. So after the kids helped me put the first stake in and K bungeed the two panels to the standing posts, I went back in and assembled additional stakes. Then we dug out broken concrete around the posts as required so that I could hammer in the stakes, attach them to the posts, and get things more or less back together.

There is a whole lot of fence repair coming in the near future, because otherwise there won't be any fence.