As is typical in summer, I got up early and started working outside. Normally I take a mid-day break, but I really wanted to get the chicken coop done. I don't know how many lemon-lime seltzer waters I went through. A lot. I ran through my 10 hour iPod speaker battery, and kept going.
At dusk, all I had left to do was hang the big 'man' door (the lilac thing laying on its side in the foreground) and the chicken wire enclosure that will give them room to run outside without being endangered by predators. They'll have access to the goat pasture during the day, but I want them locked up tight at night. Just hoping to prevent another massacre by marauding raccoons.
The idea of catching them all and putting them back up in the greenhouse appalled me. So, as darkness began to encroach on the land, I tacked on a wire screen (the area that appears to be a hole with faint green lines) above the tall threshold, and above the wire I put a spare piece of plywood.
That should keep them snug tonight.
I've heard a couple of clucks here and there, in addition to the peeps. Aw, they're all growing up and learning to P'kaw!
Tomorrow, I hope to stain the coop, put on the galvanized roof, and maybe hang the door (though that's a pain to do alone--the boy is strictly an indoor kitty while he finishes a course of antibiotics prescribed for some very nasty spider bites, and my DH and the girl will be gone for most of the day tomorrow.) After that, we just have to finish the mini-chicken run, and we're done! Weeee!
Not a moment too soon. Writing just in the evenings isn't very productive, and the house looks terrible. I also have a ton of weeding to do. Argh!
There's never anything to do around here ....
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As they say in Japan, "O-tsukaresama deshita!"
(Hard to translate into English. It literally means, "You were really tired, my lord/lady!" It's a very polite equivalent of, "Good work!")
Domo arigato gozai masu!
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