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Go Ducks indeed! I'm almost dreading teaching tomorrow...I know my students won't have a single brain cell focused on 'how to write logical thesis statements.' The game will be totally epic, though.

Well, it took until December 18th, but we finally "finished" the coop. We'd had the rafters up for ages, just waiting to be roofed. And let me tell you what, tarps are not fun to constantly place and replace. It took us so long to roof the coop because we couldn't find a vehicle large enough...

Long time, no update. Mostly because the pictures weren't very interesting. We mostly just added hardware cloth to the run panels, which took FOREVER. We also rehung the door and finished that all up. Then this weekend we painted the inside, laid down the linoleum floor, and installed the...

Quote: I know! Brilliant as it may be, though, I can't take full credit. In the original design, the coop part of our coop/run was actually supposed to be on the opposite side (by the stairs) with the nest box facing toward...well, toward the photographer in most of my "full shot" pictures...

Ah, yes...the interactive time. I adore "socialize the birds" time, but it's a commitment. At 6 weeks, they're quick little buggers when they escape, and I don't want to find myself in a situation where I've got only 10 minutes until I need to be teaching (I live across the street from my...

Oh, where to begin on today's difficulties? Maybe with the Great Window Debacle of '10, which itself has nearly a two-month long history. Back when I first began designing this behemoth, I stumbled upon this coop that uses a recycled traffic light lens as a window in the coop. Neat idea, I...

This coop construction project is dragging on a lot longer than I had thought, so in order to make me feel like we're making progress, I thought I'd set up a construction log. On June 13th, we began construction by demolishing the poorly-functioning hippie greenhouse on our future coop site...