It turns out that morning is not the best time to perform fence work; the sun beats down into that area between fence and garage during those early hours. Panel construction now pushed to afternoon, once the sun is behind the garage. I hung some laundry on the line and it's so hot that by the time you get to the end of the line you can go back to the beginning and take it down completely dry.

Lots of fireworks in the surrounding neighborhoods last night. They aren't as percussive as when I lived in New York City years ago; there the buildings allowed incredible reverberation of the explosions. Here I have a dog who doesn't like them and I live along a greenbelt filled with trees and dry grass as fuel.