I have forgotten how many times I have written about the chicken coop, but I have had several requests for updates. Well, we are making progress. We continue to make mistakes given the temperature and the fact that we have to often do our work in the dark given the loss of day-light-savings. That said, I am pretty pleased at what we have accomplished. Annie and I hope to move the chickens into the new coop by Christmas day. We have been challenged every step of the way! We were painting the walls during the cold snap, which resulted in me walking around with a flashlight and a paintbrush fixing the runs that happened because of the temperature. At any rate, here is a picture we took a couple of weeks ago.



We had put up the siding and roofing... actually, I had put up the roofing and siding because Annie was gone that weekend, or doing homework. I scared the crap out of myself when I almost fell off the tall side of the coop. I would assuredly broke my leg...

We have continued working when we could find time, and with the storms coming, I have been fairly aggressive on making progress. I finished the shingles last night at dark to fend off the rain expected last night, and woke up this morning to my surprise to find sunny skies. I foolishly decided I could get the trim pieces for the casing and get it in before the rain started again. While I was cutting the last pieces, it started raining. God has it in for me. Nevertheless, I managed to get it together well enough to finish. I will probably wake up tomorrow to see that the coop looks like it was crying given that it has been so cold that the pain hasn't completely dried, let alone cured. I tried, though, and I think it looks beautiful.



Of course, it looks better in the dark!



Do I really have muscles there? Why do they hurt so much?