Dad had a few run-ins with fencing, each time resulting in a humorous story and an example of his patience and abilty to take things in stride. One time he and his older brother Calvin cut down a good-sized maple tree while helping to clear my lot, and it fell right on the neighbor's chainlink fence. He and Cal rebuilt that fence and made it look better than new. All this before we even knew about it. All he said was "well, we had to build ya a new fence".
Another time, years later, he spread some ashes from his firepit in his garden, which just happened to be next to his privacy fence. A few hours later his neighbor came over to tell him his fence was on fire. Dad began telling us this story by simply saying " well, I burned up my fence."
