How to get husband in gear to build coop

[darkmatter]

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Exactly, beer tastes better with the top popped, ice cold, hand delivered to a hard working hubby on the job site. (Mode of dress, optional)

 

[Chemguy]

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No, you aren't! in fact, we just had a mild argument the other day about the fact that I'd like more things to do. I love my wife...she's the only person in the world with whom I could EVER have that type of argument.

 

[Zonoma]

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They don't make 'em like they used to, spotstealer.

 

[TruGritCkn]

Building it with girl power! I don't know what you think when you say DH but i know what I do!!!! hahahaha
Sorry that just came out....

 

[littlefork]

Go out to the garage and get his chain saw, walk into the house with it and announce "Honey I know your busy so I thought I would start cutting some wood for the coop by myself, can you pretty please show me how to start this thing?"

 

[Zonoma]

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That'll get 'im moving. Seriously, though. My husband is willing enough but, frankly, I have more experience building things than he does (summers in my grandfather's woodshop as a child apparently paid off) so when I want something done very specifically I hafta wait til he's out of town and break out the tools to do it myself so I don't hurt his feelings. Love that man.

 

[Bianca67]

Problem solved! My retired father and I are going to tackle the project together!

 

[dixiebeast]

I have enjoyed this thread! I wanted chickens for 16 years of marrige...DH said NO...I finally wore him down to "if I build my own coop and do all the work"...I built my own coop and now 4 months later and he has taken over the whole operation...even has the nerve to tell me what chickens we should get next! LOL ( he just built an bigger coop/run Sunday!) He came home from work the other day and said his boss asked when they went from "her" chickens to his!

 

[farmdude]

That is an awesome story!
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[ChickInDelight]

littlefork wrote:
Go out to the garage and get his chain saw, walk into the house with it and announce "Honey I know your busy so I thought I would start cutting some wood for the coop by myself, can you pretty please show me how to start this thing?"

That was what I had in mind - while inappropriately dressed in something like granny boots, mini skirt, and a floaty-top guarenteed to get caught in the chain.

In reality, I do everything myself so that I can do it all MY WAY! Hey - if I only did things I do well, I wouldn't do much. I let my husband do whatever he wants.... then again... he left me some years ago.

Good luck! I am building a duckhouse now myself.... out of free pallets.... in an octagon shape.