here's the (partially completed) fence. as you can see, i had to do it picket by picket, since home depot and loews have all these 42" panels on display outside but don't actually carry them in stock (which is always really helpful). obviously the old, grey, crummy part is the old part, and the new, brownish, crummy part is the new part. it did an excellent job of keeping the dogs in until they dug a hole under the OTHER fence between our house and the neighbors [sigh]. oh well. those things would run through a firing squad to get to that cat food...