The chickens have nesting boxes.

Not much else going on besides feeding chickens and mowing right now.  We're bound to get busy sometime soon, so don't go away.  The chickens are 3 months old now.  We got this great nesting box set up from someone who wasn't using them anymore.  Nice, huh?  Not free, but bartered.  No need to convert the blue boxes now.  What should I do with them?

I got my potting bench!

You'll never guess how much it was.....nothing!  Well, it was an hour or so of one son's time.  Thanks, it looks great and it's going to do the trick.  It was made from all used lumber, much of it from the burn pile that we haven't burned yet.  Here it is:

very rustic, huh?  that's trash for you.  that there over yonder is the chicken coop and the door on the end is the garden shed.

upcoming project (hopefully)

I'd like to get my hands on one of these or possibly make one out of some scrap we have laying around.  oooh, better retrieve some from the burn pile before it goes up in smoke!  It'll go in my "garden shed" er, uh, the small side of the chicken coop.

We Have a Chicken Coop!

I'm really glad this man here loves to use big equipment to do amazing things.  It makes him thrive.  We got this small building for free from just across the road.  They are clearing an abandoned property for planting.  The other younger man in the pictures was there to help.  Oh, and I was there to help too, can't you tell?  was behind the scenes support.  Yeah, that's it.

And there she is.  I would really like it to have vertical red siding with white narrow strips of siding.  That style looks so classic.  We'll have to put some windows in those openings.  This is facing south just as it should be.  It fit on a slap that was already there.  Sounds like a bunch of providence to me!  Thanks for the chicken coop Lord!  Yes, I thanked the Lord for a chicken coop.

THIS POST shows what was on that slab.  and THIS POST shows the old chicken coop that we pushed over and burned.  It had its problems and it was huge.  We're really not going for a chicken farm here.  This new one is a great size and all we really need to do is put the doors back on and patch a couple of holes in the floor and it's ready to use.  This would not include the chicken coop makeover that I have in mind.......you haven't heard of such things? 

CHICKENS, HERE WE COME!

goodbye chicken coop

Knocking the chicken coop over only took about ten minutes or so, then was pushed into a pile with the other barn and lit on fire later. It was in pretty bad shape, missing a good portion of the backfacing roof. We plan to put up a new one.

exciting footage

WOW!

OUTBUILDINGS: the barn

there's just something about a barn that's just so "farmish" the barn needs some TLC, but I like it. I can just see a milk cow in there. There's a lot of work to do. there is a fenced in area behind it.

machine shed?

well, I'm not sure what this building is. possibly a machine shed? it needs help too. you can see half the roof is missing, it is laying on the ground about 30 yards away. tornado? maybe.

the chicken coop

the chicken coop needs some help! we might have to push this one over and start fresh. we thought it was fixable, but upon closer observation, there are other problems besides the missing roof. but our dear girl wants to raise chickens so we shall see what we can do about that!

the east side has a walk-out basement which happens to currently have broken glass. there is an old washer and dryer in front of it also, among other things like bed springs and such. a lonely bar of soap somehow ended up in the yard. strange.

a mouse that was found under a bed, which was on the living room floor. the lovely chicken coop needs a little tweeking, but it will do.

a better bathroom after the broom and trash can came through, but still in need of dynamite.