Building Our Side Gate

On the left side of our house is where our shed is located with all of our lawn equipment and other 'shed' stuff. BUT, the gate to the back yard is on the right side of the house. Therefore, every time we do yard work in the front yard or need something out of the shed, we have to walk all the way around the house then back to the front and of course all the way around again to put it back. We've been wanting to install a gate on the left side for over 3 years. But you know how busy us retired people are, so we're now just getting around to it... LOL.





















Here's the front fence view"before" the new gate.

... and this is the back fence view "before" the new gate.

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This is Stanley helping out. He's the kitty that lives across the street and he comes to visit us often. He's a very nice cat that frequents all the neighbors front yards.








We had to dig a big hole to cement in a new post for the gate.
We're leveling the post and getting ready to cement it in. Then we had to cut the post and install the supports.




We used as many of the old boards that we could.

This is the construction of the new gate.

The finished product... and it is so much easier to access our equipment. It was only a $40 project and well worth the few bucks that we spent. Next we will continue with a cement walkway from the side to the front porch. We'll get to that when the 100+ weather gets the hell out of here!!