Chicken Run

It has been a crazy week here in Cowland.  We had Mia and Elizabeth here for part of their spring break and had a great time.  There was a lot of play outside along with great help watering the new plants and fertilizing the blueberry plants, azaleas and hydrangeas.  Also, Kirby did the second mowing of the year. We made lunchmeat - four kinds and 21 pounds of meat: Berliner, venison, pastrami and bologna.  Towards the end of baking it, of course, a power failure of 5 hours!!  At least it wasn't bread baking and at least the meat was 99% up to temperature.  It did finish by leaving it in the oven until the power came back on.  During all of this, Kirby and Kevin worked on the chicken run which is nearly complete now.  It just needs some of the dirt at the edges smoothed out and packed down.  Today was build a walkway day.  The old stones from Mom's front door were used (as she now has a lovely cement walkway) and mortared with old mortar from previous projects.  As you can see, the coop is looking classy!  The chickens have been with us for four weeks now and are really growing quickly.  They are definitely pooping machines.  Good fertilizer after composting!!  We still have to build the roost, a poop box for underneath the roost and install the outside watering system for the run.  Inside will be the jugs attached to the wall.  Kirby finished the automatic 5 gallon bucket feeder today and it works great!  We had a rainy day yesterday so the house got cleaned up - which doesn't happen too often when the outside calls!.  Now, if only I could get back to weeding..............