Camouflage

This is Joe painting the fence on the south side of the house -- three sections in primed-wood vertical slats, while the rest is horizontal pressure-treated wood.

The big posts were pressure-treated and primed white, too, but Roy found a tan tint that blends seamlessly with the "Honey Gold" water seal we put on the horizontals. And the match was so good, we went ahead and painted the verticals, too.

Those verticals will always remind me of Ref. In the few days immediately after he died, we were scrambling to do something, anything, to take our mind off the loss -- and get on with the project. We had various takes on the style of fence he'd been planning, and those three sections were the prototypes we built. Rather than toss them when we found the final horizontal pattern, we fit them into the spaces least visible from the street or the rear deck.

The HardyBacker at the bottom, by the way, will hold dirt in place for our gardens.