First fence posts are in!

A week ago I posted that The Boy and I bought the first fence posts for the garden.  Since then, a variety of things conspired to keep me from actually sinking any.

Thanks to my parents watching The Boy and The Girl so Wifey and I could sleep train The Bear, we had some free time (aka The Bear's occasional naps) to get some work done during the day.

While taking a break from tarring our portico roof, I was able get four fence posts sunk around the partial perimeter of what will become our vegetable garden.  

 

The plan is to have all the fence posts approx 8' apart.  Maybe I'm overthinking things a bit, but I deliberately spaced them rather far apart to create the envelope.  I deliberately spaced three of the posts 24' from one another with a fourth being 16' from its neighbor.  Later on, I'll just sink the follow-on posts at the interior distances (8' from the exterior posts.  What is shown only represents roughly 1/2 the total envelope of what will become our garden.

While I'm planning out when I can sink more fence posts, I also need to negotiate with Wifey regarding what color to stain the fence.  I also need to draft some proposals for how I can make the fence functional while adhering to the nebulous directions provided through Wifey's chant, "It must be pretty!  It must be pretty!  It must be pretty!"

I already suspect that her reaction will be less than uplifting given her crushing response (and that of my mom) when I proudly showed her my groundbreaking (literally) achievement.  

"Those are tall.  Are they supposed to be so tall?  I don't know how you can make them pretty."

Such is my accepted lot in life.  I knew life would be interesting when we paired an engineer with an artsy type.  

I wouldn't have it any other way.