Good Fences, Part II

And so it begins. After due reflection and a lot of advice, I instructed Richard the Renovator Guy to build a fence about 6 inches inside my property, parallel to the surveyor's line. And Richard instructed my son Tom to dig the first post hole. Two days later, after first renting a power drill so that Tom could break up the huge stump that lay just underground at the site of the first post hole, which made not a whit of difference, and then having a big, expensive chisel specially welded to a pole, which promptly broke, ("$100," said Richard mournfully) the hole was relocated and now lies JUST inside the property line.