Dixie Chicks

[Amberjem]

Mornin' back Amber

you caught me skimming. I was almost 200 posts behind and the only thing I remembered was the pretty flowers

(guess my Master Gardener was showing

)

hahah and they were such pretty flowers though

 

[Amberjem]

ops man hate when you push the wrong button and everything disappears

 

[vehve]

The run is coming along nicely.

In Hockey World Championships news, Finland is currently on a record breaking run of not allowing the opposing team to score. 4 clean games so far, Juuse Saros played his adult world championship debut game at the goal and stopped every shot a few days ago, now Pekka Rinne is back after a slight cold and if this match goes well, he will have played four perfect games. He already broke the record for how long a single goalie has gone without letting a puck go behind his back in the world championships.

 

[Peep_Show]

There's actually two trees at the coop, the apricot in the foreground and an apple in the back which provide nice shade for the coop. The run will block the western sun, too, from hitting the coop. The run is situated in-between the railroad tie planting rows, so there will be greenery on either side of it once the bush beans, peppers and tomatoes are in. Possibly may add a rain barrel to catch roof run-off as water is a precious commodity not to be wasted.

I was REALLY anal-retentive about the chicken coop and it nearly drove me crazy. Had to take a little while off before doing the run just to recover from burnout. I mean, really, who makes-by-hand wood shingles for a coop?!? (Necessity being the mother of invention, it was discovered that NO place in Albuquerque carries wood shingles) At one point I realized my inner Martha was getting the better of me, but some of the coop features are really too neat-o and so I'm glad I was picayune about attention to details (like elevated coop with underneath storage, the roll-out roost pan/drawer so you can do morning chicken poop scooping from outside the coop and windows you can open and adjust from outside). So I relaxed the reins a bit on constructing the run, and it shows in some areas....but at this point I just want it d-o-n-e so I can move on to other projects and get the addition-to-the-flock/later-hatched birds out of my guest room and garage and into the coop proper. Yeah, it's just a chicken coop.... Lol. "Coop magnum opus" One run and done... It will be awhile before I undertake building again.

 

[hennible]

The run is coming along nicely.

In Hockey World Championships news, Finland is currently on a record breaking run of not allowing the opposing team to score. 4 clean games so far, Juuse Saros played his adult world championship debut game at the goal and stopped every shot a few days ago, now Pekka Rinne is back after a slight cold and if this match goes well, he will have played four perfect games. He already broke the record for how long a single goalie has gone without letting a puck go behind his back in the world championships.

Go Pekka!

 

[vehve]

Still 20 minutes of game time left, if someone's interested.

 

[hennible]

Stuck with cartoons atm

 

[vehve]

What kind of Canadian kids are your raising there, Sam? I thought you were all supposed to be hockey nuts...

 

[Peep_Show]

Hope their streak holds!

(Basic antenna TV here, so no foreign sports cable channels... keep us posted!)

 

[vehve]

It's not a foreign sport, it's an international event. The US is competing too. Sadly it's not that popular in the States... It would be pretty interesting if the NHL would pause their games for the duration of the championships and would allow all of the players to take part, and if the general public in the States would show more of an interest. It's quite a different game, since the rink is bigger, and it favors finesse over brute strength. I don't like watching the leagues, neither the NHL or the Finnish league, but I try to always catch the world championships. Same with soccer.