Building the Chicken Coop

Mr. Man and I worked all day yesterday on the chicken coop and the backyard. The frame of each of the four walls was buildon Saturday with the help of Eric and Jack, but once we measured it out in the yard we decided it was too wide and decided to cut the coop down to 10’ x 4’, which entailed taking apart the two side walls and cutting them down to 4 feet.

It took a while to get the ground level and it was necessary to add bricks under the supports in the front to make it level. We had decided to keep the coop parallel to the fence, which is at an angle along the property line, but once we got all four walls put together, we decided that we didn’t like how this looks from the house. I wasn’t about to say I thought we should change it, but by the end of the day the decision was made to change the position so that the coop will be parallel to the garden beds and house, which we will take care of this coming weekend along with digging the trench for the rodent barrier and hopefully getting the most of the coop finished.

While Mr. Man was working the table saw and hammer, I spent most of the day weeding, mulching, planting herbs, putting up a new bird feeder and laying a path along one side of the shed that leads up to the utility area where the compost is. Hopefully by the end of the summer the small beds on each side of the path will be full of ferns, hostas, and bleeding heart, along with the Carolina Jasmine that will grow up the trellis on the side of the shed.