Colors of May

A cool palette - it's been a wet month! New colors today, though - the sun has returned! I'm off to mow the lawn! Happy Hump Day, all!

Most Eggscellent!

We have six new residents here on Miller Mountain! Just arrived yesterday - three big beautiful Ameraucanas (they lay those gorgeous blue/green eggs!) and three Black Sex Links (that sounds kinky, doesn't it?)! They are all enjoying their new abode and have already produced the promised four eggs a day. Job well done, ladies! My husband has wanted laying hens for years - he had a coop started in our old barn that burned down nine years ago - so he is quite happy to have this dream realized! I wrote The Coop on a piece of birch bark with some of the charcoal from that fire - there are still piles of it around the barn foundation. And the rooster on the front of the coop survived the fire - it was part of the weathervane! So here's to eggs and new life and the merry merry month of May!

The Christmas Coop Scoop

Count your chickens before they melt!

The lumber delivery...

Dogs inspect the wood...

It will do...

The deck gets assembled next door at our son Andy's place where he has a fully equipped tool trailor...

Transporting the deck to our yard...

Cory lays the deck while Cairn enjoys the winter sun...

Alec put in a bunch of solo building hours over New Year's...

It was Alec's idea to mount this old rooster on the chicken coop - it was part of the weather vane on the old barn - it survived that big fire!

The ghost of Christmas future...

Our son Andy donated some roofing shingles from his business...

Kaitlyn cutting the shingles...

She's one cute chick!

The Independent Man...

Last week our son-in-law Cory spearheaded the building of a chicken coop for Miller Mountain as a Christmas gift for my husband, Garry, (Garry had a coop started in our old barn that burned down in 2002...) and rallied the help of his wife, our daughter Kaitlyn, and our son Alec, who was home from California for the holidays. (I was the official documenter of the project... :^) We will be getting a dozen laying hens in March, and Garry plans to purchase some guineafowl, as well, and eventually some meat birds.

What a fabulous gift! We're all looking forward to an eggcellent New Year!!