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Lessons learned from the land of do-it-yourself projects. (As I See It).

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 28-APR-03 		Format: Online - approximately 735 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Lessons learned from the land of do-it-yourself projects. (As I See It).(Column)

Article Excerpt
I have become a contractor. No need for you professionals to worry about my little enterprise. I'm just building a dog pen.

My wife and I have two free-roaming dogs, but now we have to keep them in a pen because we're getting neighbors. The existing enclosure is small; the dogs are not. In fact, they're quite large. So, succumbing to guilt, I decided to build them a bigger space.

The new pen will be almost three acres, and I will have no more guilt.

Plan, materials and labor

Every project must have three things: a plan, materials and labor.

I vaguely knew where I wanted the fence (the...

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