Stick Arbor Finally Done

Over this past weekend, in spite of a pretty nasty bug I caught at work, we got the arbor knocked out on Sunday.  We ended up using two cedar fence posts for supports.  Julie's dad came and helped me out a bit on Saturday.  He had a great idea on using wire for the gate hinges, but they were just too heavy and started to sag shortly after we put them up.  So, we ended up having to buy hinges.  This put our total cost up a bit, but I believe it will stay up longer this way.  Here's a picture of the almost-completed arbor.

Julie did an awesome job with the River Birch branches.  The pictures we took after we finished up were too dark to post, but I'll be sure to post a picture over the next few days.  

chris