Our profound thanks to Dan Graham and the 9 fantastic volunteers from F3 (Fitness, Fellowship, Faith) of Clearwater along with my brother-in-law Dave, my nephew Carson, and myself for all of the hard work & great attitudes they poured into helping GTD get one big step closer to filling in the gaps of our perimeter fence at the GTD Home Base! The fence will help protect & preserve our equipment and adventure gear as well as allow the GTD Dogz to run free without a leash.
My smokin' hot Dad smoked up a Boston Butt and 2 pork loins for all the workers, and my Sister & Mom helped cheer us on!
I actually bought used wood fencing on Offer Up about 3 years ago as well as a new gas powered auger about 3 years ago that has never been opened. We've had a lot of family health challenges that have put most of the work projects on the back burner so getting to use the auger, install the fencing, & making this amount of progress in such a short amount of time feels soooooo good!!
Carson Vescovi of Power Washing Florida (& GTD) spent a few hours pressure washing both sides of all the fencing to make it look like new!
Using my property survey, a metal detector, and a few tips from YouTube I found the pins that mark the corners of the property. We then ran a string line from pin to pin to establish the property line. To my joy I have a few more feet of property on the other side of my hedges that will work great for storing and camouflaging my building materials that can be a little bit of an eyesore.
I called 811 to have the area checked for underground wires, cables, & utilities. With the exception of a cable box right on the property line we were cleared to dig.
Carson then trimmed back all the overgrown hedges while I measured out and marked the location of the post pole holes to be dug.
The 9 men of F3 came over on Saturday and installed 14 posts in 3 hours! With the gas powered auger they literally dug out 14 holes in 30 minutes!! It was amazingly fast! They were amazingly fast! And they took care to do the project accurately, level, & plumb. Surprisingly they only had a few thick roots to cut out with a sawzall.
Dave and I installed 13 wood fence panels over a few hours with only a cable box, palm tree, and a challenging tree root & limbs to contend with along the 125 feet of east side property.
All that remains to do on this section of fence are a few pickets to replace, a few modifications for the cable box & a palm tree on the property line, rake out all the leaves, stain the fence, and move the existing rolling gate to the new fence line.
It was a great weekend of accomplishment and it couldn't have been done without the Body of Christ!! We are so blessed by the support and help of so many amazing people who love Jesus! Thank you so much hard working, self sacrificing, awesome people!!
To learn more about F3 of Clearwater and to join them in a workout check out their website!
https://f3clearwater.com/
For all your power washing needs check out Power Washing Florida's website!
https://www.powerwashingflorida.net/
