Joe and the Fence

There is a famous line from Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall”: “Good fences make good neighbors.” If this is true I will be a good neighbor thanks to my friend Joe and his co-worker. My fence along my driveway was raggedy and fell down in a wind storm last fall. My neighbors on the other side of the fence are adults without children and privacy for both of us is good.

My neighbor on the other side is fenced off on my side but on the other side it is wide open with no fence between him and the other house. This is also good because their son can easily play with the children next door to him and the families have formed a good relationship.

So having a fence between neighbors can be a benefit as not having a fence between neighbors can be a benefit. It is not the fence or lack of fence that brings neighbors together. It is the relationships that develop in time by conversation and common experiences. To fence or not to fence is not the question.

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