Our new fancy chicken door came in the mail Friday, and today was the day to install it! Now the reason it is so special is it works electrically on a timer. Once installed and set up, it will open and close automatically at whatever times we set. So we don't have to hurry home or get up a half hour earlier to open or close the coop!!! An ingenius invention...that is easy enough I'm sure I could have made one. But I don't have the patience or time for something like that right now, so I bought one online.
We headed down to the barn in Dixie with our load of wood, another ladder, the chicken door, some snacks and the dogs. It didn't take us long to get all set up and pick up where we had left off. P with her bad ass tool belt. Me with my dumb fisher price one. Surprisingly, the chicken door took only about an hour...AND when we plugged it in, it even worked!!! So we moved on to the rest of the back of the barn. There were several 2x4s that had been chewed by the previous owners horses that had to be replaced, and some posts that were suppose to support the whole barn, yet no longer touched the concrete floor anymore. So we installed new posts with some brackets. (I think brackets are the answer to everything and Patty thinks I'm ridiculous. Whatever your problem is...there is a bracket for it!) We also created some cross supports for the back of the barn, (using more brackets). Since we are both still sick our energy was wiped out early and we cleaned up. What's next? We need to put the bottom 3 pieces of plywood on the barn, cover the back of the barn with Tyvek wrap and then install the T1-11!
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