Moving Right Along.

 There's my chicken coop. It has a door on the other side for the chickens to go in and out, 3 roosts inside, and the nesting boxes which you can access from the outside. We can put motion detecting solar lighting on it, so that if something comes prowling around at night, the lights will come on automatically, alerting us inside. It has a metal roof and it is on skids. We are going to start out with it probably 75 feet from the house until we get an idea of what sort of problems we will have with predators, and then move it some place else if we can get away with it. It is very well built and I can't see how anything could get inside. We paid $200 cash for it, a 150 gallon tank and a soft ball sized ball of lead that Levi and the boys melt down to make sinkers for fishing. 

Today, my brother-in-law drove over on his tractor to help Tim lift the tank into the bed of his truck, which was a big help. He has a 4WD tractor, which is better in the mud. 

The wind was so sharp today. We began building the raised beds but we no sooner got to work than it began to rain. We gathered up the tools and went inside. Tim finished hooking that gas up, and we installed my kitchen stove and tested it out. We really are pleased with the undersink cabinet. You really could not tell the difference between the old cabinets and the new one. The young Amish man has just taken over the business and I think he was worried that the it would not match, but it was perfect. 

So we puttered inside. The house was cold because we'd turned off the heat while the gas lines were being run. It was freezing. (Yay, spring! Note sarcasm) We'd turned the heat off in the house to work on the lines, so we finished up, relit the heat, and then just headed home. By then it was snowing.

So, that was today. We got stuff done, but not everything that we wanted to get done, that's for sure, but we're lucky we got anything done because Tim ran a nail through his hand. 

We watched Adolescence last night. Yowza. That was a powerful series. The four episodes were so powerfully acted that you could almost forget that it was acting at all. That's how real it seemed. It was done by Brad Pitt. Two things that struck me was that, firstly, the movie did not fade from one scene to another. It flowed from person to person, which is hard to explain, but it shifted from one character's perspective to another simply by having them pass in a hallway or have a conversation. Also, I read that it was a one take movie. Every scene was shot one time, and they went with it. I don't think I ever heard of that. I recommend the movie, but I can't say I enjoyed the movie. It was a heartbreaker, especially if you have a 13 year old boy in your life. 

My youngest granddaughter is a big fan of Bluey. I found these for her Easter basket.