Learning to be "normal": Good fences make good neighbors take 2

OK, I threw those pictures up right quick so N could see them when he was online. Sharon is my back yard neighbor and she's awesome! We have a lot in common (NO kids) and we both have 2 dogs. Her pups are Sam and Hailey. I kept them one weekend when she was gone to a wedding and my girls had the best time with them. I was surprised because usually Pooh gets tired of other dogs being around pretty quickly. The morning Sharon came to get them Pooh ran back to the fence and waited for them to come outside. It was so sweet. We had joked about putting in a gate so we could just walk back and forth across the back yards and seeing how well the kids all got along sealed the deal!! I picked up the gate hinges at Lowes and on Sunday we (I) started working. Sharon has never really used any power tools and didn't really know what I was going to do or how I planned to do it so she was there for great moral support! I put the hinges on her side of the fence first then went around to my side of the yard and put up the 2x4 to support the middle part of the fence then used a 2x6 we had in the garage for the cross support on the door. Getting the right angles cut was a little tricky and I hate using a skill saw but sometimes you just have to work with what you got. After I had the cross braces in place it was time to cut the gate free. I used the jig saw to cut through the 2x4s and the gate was open!!! Our yards slop a good bit so we had to dig out an area for the gate to swing into Sharon's yard. That took about an hour and now it's wide open for the dogs to run back and forth. And speak of the devil, Hailey just walked in my dog door. ;) Oh and not to be left out there comes Sam.

The pups all playing