June 2010

Home Improvements

In the last few weeks we’ve had three new skylights added to the kitchen, and all new carpet put in in the living and dining rooms and hallway.

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Kitchen before

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Holes in the ceiling

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Kitchen after; this is with NO lights on!

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Funky light patterns in the deep skylight well

And the carpet… sorry, I didn’t take before photos. But it was a grotty 12 year old concrete-gray Berber that I couldn’t get clean. This is softer, warmer color, and easier to clean.

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New carpet. Nice empty room, huh? Too bad we had to put stuff back in…

With all of that and a bit of painting, it’s beginning to feel like a different house.

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Chicken Update

They’re getting big! And they look like real chickens now. Harder to get pictures of lately.

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Front: Silver Laced Wyandotte; Middle: Barred Rock; Back: Rhode Island Red

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Easter Egger (Americauna)

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Rhode Island Red Rooster and Hen

On Memorial Day, we moved their new house. It was formerly the home of a giant tortoise belonging to some friends, but he was moving on and they were getting rid of the house, so we rented a trailer and moved it to our backyard.

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Driving it through our forest

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Driving down the yard

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Getting it into the right position

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Back and side with deck

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Front which will face into run (we plan to paint this side too)

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Chickens in their new home!

All we had to do was take out all the insulation and one wall panel, add hardware cloth and some perches for roosting. Soon we’ll have to add nesting boxes, too, but since they’re not laying yet, it’s not an issue.

We’re still working on the run. Posts are cemented in, and hopefully tomorrow we’ll be adding the fencing. They’ve been in a small temporary run up til now, or a makeshift chicken tractor in the garden where we wanted some weeding done.

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More New Babies

This time, kittens.

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We’ve had them for a week now. They’re about 9 weeks old, both girls. I hardly have any pictures, though, because most of the time they’re either under the couch or moving too fast! We haven’t agreed on names yet; the kids have their ideas and we have ours and, um, they’re not the same. Dougal, our 12 year old Maine Coon, is not happy. Mostly he avoids them, but if they get too close, he still hisses. I’m sure he’ll get used to them eventually.

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