The local chainlink pro is now "mentoring" the Dog World job, and a new highly-motivated helper will be here tomorrow to start the muscle-work. Hardi and I just got the tools set up for him to use tomorrow. His supervisor is thrilled to know that a letter of reference (for his job application file) will result if it goes well.
His main supervisor lives right up the road, and will bring him and take him back home afterwards. Another young man who drives will join him later in the week.
I now believe that there will actually BE an end in sight, and Hardi and I just re-eyeballed the mistakenly-assembled parts to see how to best proceed. We decided that "how best to proceed" will net us an even huger fenced-yard area for hoomins and doggies and their dog-owning COMPANY. If we stay here much longer, that new fenceline will connect to another area of the yard with easily-installed ag panels (that I can buy one at a time from grocery bucks).
And I dreamed Enid again last night. This time she was Corgi-like with a collie head, alternately a puppy and an adult.
Now that I have been mentored and DONE the inventory I had requested weeks ago, I can see that there are PLENTY of good chainlink parts just like Walt predicted, not only to finish Dog World, but to shore up Kennel-Pen #1 in the spring to look pretty. I get to look forward to landscaping the results to cover any unsightly joins of fencing, etc., and to enjoying the result before winter makes it dormant till spring. And winter here is very, very long.... but I'll get to see and enjoy this at least once before the snow chases me indoors to dream about it. And the dogs will love using it even in the snow and cold. They've been very patient with the small kennel space, really.
We had a good laugh here at ourselves trying to undo a lag-bolted fencing spike off the wood post-- WHAM! WHACK! Oh, we took out the lag-bolt. But it was awhile till we remembered that there are lock-channel parts on the spike assembly that knock off the spiuke's cup with one good tap, and of course the post came right out of the cup with no problem. Been so long since we first bought them that we'd forgotten how they are made! :~)