Progress

Bob finished up with the cattle guards so we loaded them up and made the trek out to the property to drop them off before the fence guys come out to begin the fence building.
We've decided on a 5 strand bobwire fence.  The fence is 54 inches high.  Top strand is 10 inches from second strand.  This is done so that when deer jump the fence they DONT get their leg(s) caught in it.  Then the rest are evenly space with the last strand being 16 inches from the ground.  This is done so that hogs can crawl under as well as deer and fawns.  If you've ever seen a deer caught in a fence its heartbreaking.  And a lot of ranchers don't give a lot of thought to the spacing of the wires.  It's got to be a most horrible death...I've rescued a deer or two caught in a fence and it's not something I want to repeat.
We headed put to the property today to see how far the fence guys had gotten and were pleasantly surprised in that they had gotten a lot further than we anticipated.  Yippee!

This pic was taken on Wednesday and this next picture was taken on Saturday.

If you look closely you can see that all the strands of the bobwire have been strung.  Small steps.
The trenches for the cattle guards got dug but when we attempted to put them in we discovered that they were about 2 feet short.

Hopefully that will get corrected sometime this week and we can place them where they belong. 
Next we're going to concentrate on getting more things done at home for example: we have 8 (3000 gallon) rainwater collection tanks.  We have decided to leave 2 here at the house.  We will take the rest out to the property.  The Terry's ( people we bought property with) need 2...1 for water cistern  and 1 for rainwater collection.  Bob and I will take the last 4, 1 will be for cistern and 3 will be for rainwater collection. The tanks are all connected together so we need to cut the connecting PVC and cap it off so that it just fills the first 2 tanks.  We've really concentrated on using all the water in the tanks so that we could move them....wasn't real difficult as we've had no rain and the Koi ponds lose an inch or two every day in the 100 degree heat.  So the ponds have had to be topped off almost weekly.
There's  also more good news to relay...there's rain in the forecast.   Let's  hope it transpires.