Victory is Mine (Ours)!

I did it! I buried 1000 feet of wire around the perimeter of my yard (Carly helped a lot too). We are now the proud owners of an electric dog fence.

I was in a much better mood today and decided to "live in the moment" and take on the job spade plunge by spade plunge. I counted my shoveling strokes and challenged myself to do 100. When that got done I just kept on going.

And when I got some momentum going and could see the progress I was making, I got encouraged.

I was going to stop after dinner with one section of the yard to go, but I knew I could do it and I just finished with a wee bit of daylight left and hardly any slack wire to speak of.

Anyway, I feel super accomplished even though I took the hard road. Sometimes that is the more satisfying way, I suppose. Maybe that's the reason why I'm so stubborn and cheap and feel I can do everything myself.

Tired, smelly, and ready to collapse...but I still feel good.

Later.