So, the Wife and I bought a property with a 3 bedroom house and 1 tiiiiny shed on it. We started the property improvement by erecting a prefab tube-&-vinyl-coated-fabric carport to keep stuff that wouldn't fit in the (itty-bitty) shed that was on the property when we got here.
After that, the wife found a perfect prefab chicken coop that would fit the 18 hens that she wanted. Only one problem, the box labels lie... So we ended up with a very crowded coop (& run.)
While this was going on, we bought a Greenhouse, but the coop assembly (and inevitable modifications (plus re-modifications & un-modifications) dragged on until it was too rainy & snowy to put the greenhouse together.
Fast-forward to late spring, & the inadequacy of the coop+run became too frustrating for the wife, so now she wanted a much bigger coop.
During all of this, I had recurring bone infections resulting in the amputation of the toes on my right foot.
So here we are in year 2, winter riding in from the North like some marauding army, and still no:
(that's 2° & 46° for like, the rest of the world... )
* I still hold firm in the belief that if I'd built the Workshop first, (i.e. that with the ability to use more than my cordless tool bundle) that I'd be either caught up on all my honey-build list, or juussst shy of it.
But all that being said, I'm really looking forward to when the coops are finished & painted, the greenhouse is up & glistening in the sun and we've got grass flowing in the wind between the outbuildings & my Shop.
And yet,
Somehow, I get the feeling that right after I get the greenhouse in, and make arrangements for the Auger to dig the foundation posts for my shop — that it will somehow be vitally important that the back of the property be leveled off & a Canine Agility Course be installed (no doubt w/bleachers to be added after the size of the course is already leveled out...)
But hey, year 5 is a fine time for my useless old, cheap garage to be put in, right?
After that, the wife found a perfect prefab chicken coop that would fit the 18 hens that she wanted. Only one problem, the box labels lie... So we ended up with a very crowded coop (& run.)
While this was going on, we bought a Greenhouse, but the coop assembly (and inevitable modifications (plus re-modifications & un-modifications) dragged on until it was too rainy & snowy to put the greenhouse together.
Fast-forward to late spring, & the inadequacy of the coop+run became too frustrating for the wife, so now she wanted a much bigger coop.
During all of this, I had recurring bone infections resulting in the amputation of the toes on my right foot.
So here we are in year 2, winter riding in from the North like some marauding army, and still no:
- Big Coop,
- Greenhouse,
- Tack & Supply Shed, nor even
- Workshop*
(that's 2° & 46° for like, the rest of the world... )
* I still hold firm in the belief that if I'd built the Workshop first, (i.e. that with the ability to use more than my cordless tool bundle) that I'd be either caught up on all my honey-build list, or juussst shy of it.
But all that being said, I'm really looking forward to when the coops are finished & painted, the greenhouse is up & glistening in the sun and we've got grass flowing in the wind between the outbuildings & my Shop.
And yet,
Somehow, I get the feeling that right after I get the greenhouse in, and make arrangements for the Auger to dig the foundation posts for my shop — that it will somehow be vitally important that the back of the property be leveled off & a Canine Agility Course be installed (no doubt w/bleachers to be added after the size of the course is already leveled out...)
But hey, year 5 is a fine time for my useless old, cheap garage to be put in, right?