Good Fences Make Good Neighbors...

"Good fences make good neighbors", or so Robert Frost has a man say in his poem "Mending Wall".  

I can't see a fence without thinking of that poem, and of the many times i got to either perform it, or listen to others perform it, all those years of doing Speech Arts in the Kiwanis Speech and Music Festival!  :-)

The lines of the poem were echoing in my mind tonight: 

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast."

Tonight, after a good 20 minutes snowball fight on the street in front of our house, Duncan and I put our love of walls to the test, and tried to build one! 

We used old icecream buckets in an attempt to make our own snowbricks, and build a continuation fo the wall beside us. 

We gave up after three lines of bricks.  ... fatigue... that is the other thing that doesn't love a wall, and that stopped us from completing it!  :-)

 Good fences may make good neighbors... but this one is not exactly a good fence. 

Indeed, we are not sure if the fence will survive until noon tomorrow.  Nonetheless, , but... we will see! 

At least we have the photos!  We will love the snow while it lasts!