Fence, Kayaking

This is a mini-update I suppose. --Not really a long blog entry, but too much for a twitter.

I've been tired and sluggish all day. And I would have been more productive if I'd sat around and done nothing all day.

The day wasn't without big events though. I purchased the materials for my fence today with Dawn. I'm guessing there will be another few hundred to put in the gates, but I spent about $5000 to completely fence the back yard.

By this time next week, or sooner hopefully, I'll have a finished fence.

It's a ton of money that I really didn't want to spend. But I can now more or less quit worry about my neighbor now, and more importantly, can really start to enjoy the backyard. And to have something off my mind that has been weighing down on me since I first about the house five years ago, is quite nice.

As for yesterday, we had tons of fun kayaking. It wasn't as hot as our previous trip and there are plenty of good pictures. We can across an alligator that I named "Fear of God." Usually I err on the side of "too close" when I'm taking pictures of gators. Not this guy. I was hugging the bank of on the other side of the river and holding my breath the whole time. Dawn guesses that he was easily 12 foot. And he may well have been more. He was definitely bigger than our kayaks.

The pictures don't really do him justice, except if you zoom into his jawline -- which is huge and fat for lack of a better description. Usually gators are what I would describe as "lean and mean," even when they're big. This guy looked like he just sat around on the shore and ate whole trees.

Speaking of pictures, I'll post a few once I'm done going through them. Eventually, I'm going to have to resurrect my personal Flickr gallery or start using a wider Blogger template for the pictures though. They don't look very good "all smooshed up."