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It has been quite some time since I have added anything to here. I could go on to make excuses why, but really, I don’t have any.

Rather than starting off with up to date content I am going to throw up some things from the summer. To start it off I would like to show you a lovely picket fence that I helped to build this summer. This is the fence that we replaced. It still looks great considering it is 40+ years old! But alas, some areas are starting to rot pretty bad leading to boards that fall off easily.

It was a formidable task to make all 270 pickets needed to complete the entire span. I started off with eight foot lengths of 3×1″ spruce boards (I believe that the original fence was also spruce). After I cut them all in half I started the fun task of giving them a point. This took a while but was a cake walk compared to the next task, cutting notches. Now seeing as I really didn’t want to spend the next four weeks carefully measuring and cutting out notches I decided to make this handy dandy jig, and used the appropriately named jig saw, to cut out the notches. This made the job a snap, with each piece taking only 30 seconds or so to cut. After that was all done I managed to get out of painting them all (Yes!). But I was not done yet! There is still the task of attaching them. Once again I had no desire to carefully measure and space each and every one, so out came another jig. In no time at all the fence was up and ready to protect the farm from the rogue zombie hordes of the prairies.