What Moms Like

Did you know that Mother’s Day is in a month named after a female deity?

Like several of our calendar months, May comes from the Roman era. It’s derived from the Roman goddess responsible for Spring growth and warmth, Maia.

Whether you wish your mom a Happy Mother’s Day, tell her that you love them, or treat them like a goddess, these are all things moms like.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Pictured: Tahoe Fence loves our moms every day, and this Mother’s Day with a card a fencer’s mom would love, which features a slatted wire heart, and mom spelled with gate hinge brackets, and pipe from post cutoffs (2025.)

Mother Nature Has Curves

Our world isn’t flat. We live and work in/and around the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Here Mother Nature has curves and angles.

While you can try and dress those angles with straight fence panels, there will be some gaps underneath that show too much. And/or don’t keep enough of what’s important in.

With certain styles of iron (steel), vinyl, wire, and wood fences though, Tahoe Fence is able to follow those contours without stepping your fence.

We can even create custom styles to meet your needs.

And similar to our chain link and wood fences, we are able to install a steel fence for you on either metal or wood posts. Tahoe Fence can attach your steel fence almost anywhere on Mother Nature’s solid surfaces.

Pictured: Tahoe Fence Ornamental Iron (Steel) Modern Style Panels on Wood Posts on Hillside at Lake Tahoe

Feeling Rejuvenated

With Easter this weekend, and Earth Day this next week, we’re feeling rejuvenated.

An increase in sunshine isn’t hurting our mood either.

We’ve taken that invigorating spirit and applied it to one of our own garden fences. These redwood pickets were removed from a jobsite decades ago. But they’re still solid and even have the original stain on them.

However, an occasional picket gets destroyed when the dog, so protective of the garden, goes after a blue jay or another nuisance too aggressively. If we’re fortunate enough, we can save the picket top.

They get new life as garden/Easter bunnies!

Pictured: Tahoe Fence Repurposed Redwood Pickets as Bunnies for Easter in Carson City (2025.)

Growing Your Space

Spring weather is here. Making it an ideal time to work in our gardens, tend to those flower beds, and grow your space to your liking.

Your fence may need some tending too. It’s an integral part to your yard. Not only does it make a nice backdrop for gardens and flowers, but it helps define your space.

It can offer seclusion and reduce noise from the neighborhood. Fences help protect your garden or patios microclimates by buffering some of our strong winds. And they can help keep some of the wildlife around us from eating the flowers.

If you find your fence needs some more care or attention than you can handle, contact us at Tahoe Fence.
While me may not have green thumbs, we’re all about helping grow your best space.

Pictured: Tahoe Fence Overlapped-Cedar Box Style Patio Fence with Picket-Top Window in South Lake Tahoe (El Dorado County.)

Woven in History

Would you believe that modern-day chain link fabrication had its start in the textile industry?

The first patented chain link weaving machine was created in the 1840s, supposedly by Charles Bernard in England. The machine was based on the cloth weaving machines of the period used in textile manufacturing.

Maybe that’s why they call chain link material, chain link fabric!

The first patent for chain link in the US was in the 1890s. And it’s maintained a popularity woven throughout the years. In part, because of its economical cost compared to the production of other fence materials. And chain link’s adaptability in various security applications makes it a confident material choice.

No wonder chain link still accounts for more than 50% of market sales in the fence industry as recently as 2021.

Tahoe Fence did quite a bit of weaving on this chain link project in Minden (Douglas County.) The job was over 6,500 linear feet of chain link fencing. In addition, it required top and bottom rails, barbed wire, and several gates. The double-swing gate pictured is over 50-ft wide (the width of the road.)

Spring Sprouts

It’s official. It’s Spring. And not just because the calendar says so.

If you know the area, you know it’s Spring when tulips sprouts start showing. The season has officially changed.

Yes, we’ll probably get at least one additional snow storm that will flatten them. But until then welcome Spring!

Pictured: Dad’s Spring wine barrel tulips with Tahoe Fence scrap material sunflower. The sunflower is made from cut-offs from our gate shop with a tension rod stem, post cap flower, pinched iron picket point petals and leaves, and left over spray paint (Carson City 2025.)

Irish Green

We’re coming up on another St. Patrick’s Day this Monday.

They say everyone is a little bit Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. And green is the color of Ireland, the Emerald Isle.

Green ties into the color of the shamrock, which St. Patrick used to teach of the Holy Trinity. And during the 18th century, wearing green was meant as a symbol of rebellion for the Irish under Britain’s rule.

Legend also has it that wearing green makes you invisible to leprechauns. So you can avoid getting pinched by one.

Some of us at Tahoe Fence are feeling a little rebellious after this recent Winter storm.  Looking at Irish green, or our version of it, is preferable to more snow.

Tahoe’s crews built this green finished chain link with green slats prior to the snow in Tahoma (El Dorado & Placer Counties.)

Have a healthy and happy St. Patrick’s Day weekend. And may the luck of the Irish be with you!

It’s Daylight Savings Time again this weekend. And since we’re coming up on Spring, clocks are to be set forward one hour.

Although we will miss that one hour of precious sleep, there is one small consolation.

You know it’s true that no matter how many times you remind people to set their clocks ahead this weekend, at least someone will show up late on Monday!

Pictured: Tahoe Fence Yard Boss Wally thrilled about another day at the office in Mound House (Lyon County.) 2025