Catching up on your thread, sounds like you're going well.
I had my back gate (narrow access alley between fences) broke and pushed in a couple months ago. Thankfully my dogs are always here but still a bad feeling. Anyway, maybe a trail camera would be good to put up. My sister and her h have a lot of property and had trouble with someone trespassing. He set up a trail camera and caught their neighbor.
Good to hear about you fil, that you can maintain a r. I tm'd my mil happy bday last weekend and asked if the kids could call her and got no response.
