Thanks. The coop building has honestly been so stressful on our relationship. He broke our round glass outdoor table when he decided to use it as extra support because his other table was falling apart. But instead of putting it on the opposite side or at least checking that he had plenty of clearance he powered through, hit the table and shattered the glass all over the lawn and told me not to look down. This was like a month ago and I've finally stopped mentioning it to him. My husband is *not* a carpenter I get that but our next door neighbor *is* with a full workshop in his garage but my husband has too much pride to ask for help, advice or to briefly use a particular tool that would be so much better, quicker or more accurate like a table saw instead of a circular saw, which I find very frustrating. Though he had done a full 3-D digital mock up on the computer during the winter, he just didn't think so many things though. We've had to re-do some thing many times, sometimes hours are spent just problem solving and he usually only has 1 or 2 days off a week. I know he will not be working on Father's Day and then he and our son will be going to Indiana for a week to his mom's to build her a coop (much simpler and less fancy than ours but with actual venting and roosts which her poor battered and frostbitten chickens don't have in their shack. He promised me ours would be sturdy but not pretty. Well you can see the door is really quite pretty, but the inside walls which he chose a thin white lacquered particle board (think dry erase) because it was cheap and may wipe off better, looks like it was shot with bullet holes from all the nail heads from the big nail gun he bought (a big time saver admittedly). He keeps on reminding me its just a chicken coop. But we both wish we had just bought one and built the run, then they would be out there and not spending all day in the tractor and nights in the brooder both of which are pretty big but still, they are 2 months old and I feel like a bad mom. Sigh. End rant.
