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title: "Outdoors"
url: https://marianasheppard.com/labels/outdoors
description: "Work that has to survive weather, frost and ground that moves."
published: 2026-09-12
updated: 2026-09-12
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# Outdoors

Published 2026-09-12

## [Setting a fence post that stays where you put it](https://marianasheppard.com/journal/setting-a-fence-post-that-stays-where-you-put-it)

A post set with its collar shaped to shed water away from the timber.

Filed under [Outdoors](https://marianasheppard.com/labels/outdoors)

A fence post fails at ground level, almost without exception. It does not rot at the bottom, where people expect it to, and it rarely snaps in the middle. It goes where air and water meet the timber together, in the band just above and just below the surface, and everything about setting a post well is really about managing water at that band.

[Read the rest of this entry](https://marianasheppard.com/journal/setting-a-fence-post-that-stays-where-you-put-it)