milomac, 
Danz, I saw that LGD advertised too, and you can always tell the people that got them to guard their poultry flocks and it didn't work out. I'm sorry you're having problems with CL. Have you tried posting it in the Wichita CL or just the one up near you? Yep, it was a little chilly to be working outside yesterday but I just really wanted to make some progress. I had started it earlier last week and then for 3 days couldn't make any progress because I had so many other things I needed to get done. So I had promised myself to try and knock most of the rest of it out this weekend so even though it was cold, I just put on my Carhartt and got out there. With lifting and carrying long boards and heavy tools, I actually stayed pretty comfortable.
Unfortunately when I started to write the post last night, DH came in and reminded me it was time for us to leave as we had dinner plans with friends so I very hastily uploaded the photos and hit submit but didn't have time to add any commentary. Not that there is much that needs to be added except....you might notice that the boards for the door frame all look a little different and one is literally charred on the end? Well, that is recycling at its finest. When we moved here, the previous owners had a huge "burn" pile out in the pasture but when I started to look through it, I found some retrievable lumber. DH shook his head as I hauled the lumber I thought I could use (including a board that had been burned on one end but still had some usable length to it) up to our workshop and stacked it. There were none that were full-length but they turned out to be perfect for this job as I didn't need them to be 8' long. I did cut a little off each of the two verticals so they would be the same length as each other and I considered cutting the charred end off the horizontal but I decided to leave it on as a reminder of its origins. We'll call it "character".
On today's task list: cover the back end with welded wire, add 2' chicken wire around the inside of the entire thing, and build and hang the gate. I already have everything I need, including a tarp so it should be ready for habitation really soon.
Hawkeye, while I was building one of the silkies was underfoot the entire time! She has become super oriented to me lately for some reason and comes running whenever she sees me. So with me working right there in the yard all afternoon, she wanted to be as close to me as she could get - which was underfoot. As endearing as that is, I had to keep moving her because I didn't want to drop a heavy board on her or step on her. So I spent the afternoon picking her up and moving her across the yard, only to turn around a few minutes later and trip over her again. At one point I had to go up and get something from the shop, and of course she was right there at my feet, so I picked her up and carried her all the way to the shop and back. She chattered away non-stop the whole time. Now who couldn't love that? Here she is (the one in front):
Danz, I saw that LGD advertised too, and you can always tell the people that got them to guard their poultry flocks and it didn't work out. I'm sorry you're having problems with CL. Have you tried posting it in the Wichita CL or just the one up near you? Yep, it was a little chilly to be working outside yesterday but I just really wanted to make some progress. I had started it earlier last week and then for 3 days couldn't make any progress because I had so many other things I needed to get done. So I had promised myself to try and knock most of the rest of it out this weekend so even though it was cold, I just put on my Carhartt and got out there. With lifting and carrying long boards and heavy tools, I actually stayed pretty comfortable.
Unfortunately when I started to write the post last night, DH came in and reminded me it was time for us to leave as we had dinner plans with friends so I very hastily uploaded the photos and hit submit but didn't have time to add any commentary. Not that there is much that needs to be added except....you might notice that the boards for the door frame all look a little different and one is literally charred on the end? Well, that is recycling at its finest. When we moved here, the previous owners had a huge "burn" pile out in the pasture but when I started to look through it, I found some retrievable lumber. DH shook his head as I hauled the lumber I thought I could use (including a board that had been burned on one end but still had some usable length to it) up to our workshop and stacked it. There were none that were full-length but they turned out to be perfect for this job as I didn't need them to be 8' long. I did cut a little off each of the two verticals so they would be the same length as each other and I considered cutting the charred end off the horizontal but I decided to leave it on as a reminder of its origins. We'll call it "character".
On today's task list: cover the back end with welded wire, add 2' chicken wire around the inside of the entire thing, and build and hang the gate. I already have everything I need, including a tarp so it should be ready for habitation really soon.
Hawkeye, while I was building one of the silkies was underfoot the entire time! She has become super oriented to me lately for some reason and comes running whenever she sees me. So with me working right there in the yard all afternoon, she wanted to be as close to me as she could get - which was underfoot. As endearing as that is, I had to keep moving her because I didn't want to drop a heavy board on her or step on her. So I spent the afternoon picking her up and moving her across the yard, only to turn around a few minutes later and trip over her again. At one point I had to go up and get something from the shop, and of course she was right there at my feet, so I picked her up and carried her all the way to the shop and back. She chattered away non-stop the whole time. Now who couldn't love that? Here she is (the one in front):
