You look better without the makeup.....and not too disheveled, how hard were you actually working
Hah! Well, since yesterday was President's Day and all of the kids were home from school, I recruited my son (10), his friend (in the picture, also 10), and the girls to help finish up. The boys and my husband did most of the hard labor yesterday - shoveling 8+ inches of sand into the run, and another couple of inches in the coop, and then mixed it with PDZ. There was also a trench to be dug for the water hose, so we could hook up the automatic waterer system.
Although the "last day" was yesterday, we do still have to go back sometime this week and finish up a few minor things. I want to add boards behind the poop tray so when the birds get bigger, they don't manage to poop in those small spaces (because you know they will.) And we also have to put down the rest of the hardware cloth apron around the coop/run and cover with sand.
We would've had everything done yesterday, but we had a tragic accident - with my phone.
Once we had the trench dug for the hose, we measured it out to determine what size hose we needed to buy. I had my phone sitting on a paint can near the coop, but my husband put the boys to work shoveling sand in that area, so he moved it to avoid having sand all over the phone (in hindsight I would have preferred the sand!) He then took my Durango to the hardware store down the road to grab a new hose. Upon his return, I told him that I couldn't find my phone... and he suddenly remembered where he moved it to. The top of the Durango.
He started calling my phone, but none of us could hear it. He looked it up on the "find my iPhone" app, and lo and behold - it's about half a mile down the road.
Do you know what happens to a phone when it's flung from the top of an SUV at 55-60+ mph? Not good things. My husband and the boys took off down the road to try to find the phone, and found it, but the case was nowhere to be found, and it was completely shattered. I had a pretty solid case on it, and a glass screen protector, but it was no match for the tumble that it took. It still (kind of) works, but the sound stopped working and it must have some internal issues because it keeps sending me alerts and doing things when I'm not touching the phone. I run a business and can't have a half-working phone, so we knew it would have to be replaced. But obviously I had insurance on the phone. Just kidding, I didn't. I just bought it back in November, too. After a quick run to the Verizon store, they told me that my iPhone wasn't in stock (in the size that I needed) in any of the local stores. Of course. We ordered another one directly from Apple, but I'm still without a phone until tomorrow.
So long story short, we ended up over budget on the "coop" by about a thousand dollars.
