Bad Fences Make for Good Neighbors

No pictures to post, but we had a huge windstorm last night.  The strongest gust was clocked at 68 mph.  The Husband and I were attempting to watch the movie Roxanne when I heard a loud crunch sound.  I checked out front and then out back, and there was no fence in the back of our house between us and our neighbor.  The fence was admittedly weak and something we were wanting to fix when the weather cooled down this fall, but now that the fence just got ripped off, Monday will be fix the fence day.  Today, The Husband and our neighbor dis-assembled some of the fence and found some kind of critters (apparently not termites) in the wood.  Ick!  The good news is it was a great way to meet our new neighbor and to reconnect with our older neighbors, as we have a lot of fence to fix.  The bad news is our pup, who is kind of phobic about a lot of things, is psyched out a wee bit by the hole in the fence.  He is sticking to his people like glue.  So by sunset tomorrow hopefully we have some lovely fixed up, sturdy fence...then on to our next fix up plans...and assuming we can put a little money aside for it each month, there are a lot of fix up plans.  And nobody will be able to stop The Husband now that he's got his definitive Home Depot orange home fixing book.  He's been eyeballing it for years, so I guess the other good news about our fence, may s/he rest in peace, is that The Husband got his handyman book.