Today, we spent most of the day outside working on projects. I am hoping that we have only 1 more full Saturday of outside work and then things go slow down or at a somewhat maintenance level.

These are our two new chicks; they are approximately 8 weeks old and were hatched and cared for up until now by Zach’s agriculture class. As I talked about yesterday, the chicken run needed some repairs and some more predator proofing.  I purchased 50 feet of poultry wire at Tractor Supply on Thursday night for $20.00.  We, Matt myself and Zach worked hard on getting this net installed. We used the metal wire from the poultry netting to connect the existing netting, We also went around and found all the wood at the bottom from different areas. I am very happy with the result and the overall cost was $20. I also spent some time picking up and cleaning out around the chicken coop itself.

Next up we worked on completing the deck project from last summer.  I knew we need some type of barrier for around the outside of the deck as it is elevated off the ground and I don’t like fighting to keep it neat and tight.  We purchased two 16-foot cattle panel pieces for $47.00 We used a grinder to cut to size and they turned out PERFECT!  We have to cut and place both end pieces, but these will take some more time and energy that we were out of!  They will be finished hopefully next weekend!

Productive but exhausting Saturday!