Well, we finally have our nice, new fence in.

Unfortunately, our nice new fence looks new:

   

Now, YOU might be looking at this fence saying "Gee, it looks sorta....rusty for a brand new fence, doesn't it?"

Yes, and that's the problem. It's only sorta rusty. It's supposed to look a lot rustier than that. We paid for it months ago, and it has supposedly been sitting in the fencer's parts yard getting rusty all the time. But it looks like only parts of it got rusty.

See, we WANT it to look rusty. That's part of the "charm" that we paid for. We could have paid a little more and gotten it painted rust-colored, but we want the whole iron-ixode thing happening, so we're letting Nature take its course.

Now the whole acre+ is fenced in, and the electrician came this week and did his thing - wiring up all of the pumps and filters and the LED underwater light show and the waterfall controller and I know not what - and today the county inspector came out and inspected. We haven't had any luck at all with the county permitting process, so I figured that today was going to be a major bruhaha, but the man just nodded his big County head and signed off on everything, so next week they'll be out here spraying ShotCrete.

After the ShotCrete comes the surface finishing and the building out of the water features, then the tiling around and hooking up the solar water heater - I dunno. I just heard Ethel tell somebody on the phone that we're two to three weeks out from having water in the pool. So we should be swimming in May.

Then we'll have to complete the gravel - extending that brown Table Mesa stuff from the pool up the west side of the house. And then we'll be pretty much "done", whatever that means.

Yep - then we'll just sit by the pool, and watch the fence rust : )