The most frustrating part of this project was how much time it took to rip everything out. Demo is fun for like, ten minutes. Careful demo, demo that doesn’t destroy the neighboring rooms, is not fun. It’s prying nails out carefully with a crow bar, it’s using six different saws to extract a cabinet in…

Welcome to my next hair raising project. This is my first year as a school teacher, so it’s my first summer off. Since the day I applied the plan was to spend my summer fixing my dad’s bathroom – BEFORE THE TUB FELL THROUGH THE FLOOR.              No, I’m not…

It would be wrong to say the coop is entirely finished. But I left the state of Georgia to start on the next big project, so it’s as finished as it is going to get for now. I enclosed the entire run in wire. You can see the nuggets under the coop, exploring. Also, you…

Adding shutters was my next big step. I really wanted the coop to be able to be shut when the huge thunderstorms hit. But I wanted the shutters to be open most of the time, so they had to move. And I wanted them to be PAINFULLY cute. One piece of shutter. It will take…