Hurricane Katrina knocked down much of the wooden fence in our backyard. When we were putting it back up we decided to put in a gate between our house and the neighbor's house. That way, we reasoned, the girls could go back and forth between the yards without going around the front. However, after we got the posts and cross beams up, we decided we rather liked having no fence there at all, and left it. It remained that way for 4 1/2 years.
We walked through the open space many, many times. For crawfish boils and Easter egg hunts. Games of hide and seek and and tag and soccer. Even a Louisiana snowball fight. The first time I ever ate raw oysters I was summoned to the neighbor's back deck.
We would see the neighbors outside playing and send the May Queen out to play, too.
Now that our house is for sale, the fence has had to be completed. A wooden wall now divides us from the neighbors. Even the area for the gate was filled in. No hinges.
They say that good fences make good neighbors. We found that no fence made the best neighbors of all.
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Awww. You are making me cry.
Very sweet. What wonderful memories you've made there.
I've always longed for a neighbor like that. It's sad that you'll be losing them.
yes. my husband agrees with you. he is extremely anti-fence.
Yeah. I'd rather no fence. We have shrubbery, with a handful of paths through.
Oh, I LOVED this. It's so sad that the fence has to go up, maybe the next people will be smart enough to take it back down...
I think it probably depends on the neighbors. LOL.
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