New plan! (LOTS O PICS, adding them as I go)

[WhySayWhat]

Think I'm gonna end up with a "Gerty", lol. Anywho...I got busy tonight and started a blog! Diary of a Mad Housegirl (long story, lol). I'll still post the coop progress here, but I have a lot of other stuff going on at the moment and wanted/needed a central location for it all!

 

[AlabamaChickenLady]

Well, good luck with that. It was nice following this post. Gonna miss you on here.

I'm sure you blog will be successful.

 

[WhySayWhat]

Lol, I'll still be here too...but I keep getting distracted and going off topic, lol. Okay, off to play with the babies! I'm not getting anything done today! Lol!

 

[chickenlady08]

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Oh I just checked out your blog. I signed up to follow it. It makes me want to start my own, but not sure where I would find the time to manage it with work, 2 kids, school for myself, school for kids, my chickens, geese and ducks, dogs and cats oh and a hubby. lol... one day maybe

 

[Michigan Transplant]

I have felt guilty the past few weeks watching and reading of everyone doing something in their chicken houses so Yesterday I moved my 12 one month old chicks out of my family room and out into the front pen of the chicken house. Have the 28 chickens in the newly extended back pen. Was trying to figure out how to get some boxes onto the wall for the girls to lay their eggs in so that I don't have to duck to go into the extension area to clean or whatever. Came up with taking the bottom box that they ship bodies in to other states and nailed that to the back wall and then put the milk crates into that and secured them so they won't accidentally knock them out. Then I took the front part of a ladder and hung that from the ceiling as a roost. Everything is off the ground far enough that I can clean easily under it and can gather the eggs since they are at my arm height. I did make a ladder so that they can get to the milk crates. Waiting for the last few girls to finish laying eggs in the old boxes so that I can take those out and easily walk into the new section with out ducking way down.
It is so nice not to have the chicks in the house and I can actually see the t.v. without all the dust.

The chicks are in my grand daughters cop car box that she got for her birthday. It is about 3 foot long and about 18" high and about 36" wide, so they have plenty of room and have their red heat lamp out there and secured to the rafters so it won't fall. They seem to really like all the new space instead of the pack n play they were in before. When they get a little bigger and it stays warmer at night I will let them out in the pen and MAYBE when it is really nice will let them outside in their own pen out there. Just so excited about having my house back to normal. They survived their first night out there so think they will be alright.

Just thought I would add my little doings for the past few days too. THANKS for letting me share.

 

[WhySayWhat]

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Oh I just checked out your blog. I signed up to follow it. It makes me want to start my own, but not sure where I would find the time to manage it with work, 2 kids, school for myself, school for kids, my chickens, geese and ducks, dogs and cats oh and a hubby. lol... one day maybe

Thanks! It feels a little scatter brained to me still, lol, but that should get better once I figure out the whole "making pages" thing.

But, I got the general gist on there... Like I've said before though, I pretty much have no life, lol. I'm unemployed (mostly by choice), don't have many hobbies I need to leave the house for (I like staying home and doing things at my own pace...like showering at 3 pm, lol), and don't really have many friends in the area (it's hard making a new set of friends as an adult without a place like work to meet new people at!). That's part of the reason why I started looking into the IEL classes, it gets me out to meet new people...the downside is that my interests are generally the same as 60+ year olds and not 30-somethings, lol.

 

[chickenlady08]

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Oh I just checked out your blog. I signed up to follow it. It makes me want to start my own, but not sure where I would find the time to manage it with work, 2 kids, school for myself, school for kids, my chickens, geese and ducks, dogs and cats oh and a hubby. lol... one day maybe

Thanks! It feels a little scatter brained to me still, lol, but that should get better once I figure out the whole "making pages" thing.

But, I got the general gist on there... Like I've said before though, I pretty much have no life, lol. I'm unemployed (mostly by choice), don't have many hobbies I need to leave the house for (I like staying home and doing things at my own pace...like showering at 3 pm, lol), and don't really have many friends in the area (it's hard making a new set of friends as an adult without a place like work to meet new people at!). That's part of the reason why I started looking into the IEL classes, it gets me out to meet new people...the downside is that my interests are generally the same as 60+ year olds and not 30-somethings, lol.

I understand. But from what I saw I think you did an awesome job for someone that just started. I enjoy my chickens very much and up until I startedraising them I didn't have hardly any hobbies. I decided to go back to college and it is weird to be in class with kids right out of high school but I started my family first and wait 20 years to go back. I am happy I took the plunge.

 

[WhySayWhat]

I miss going to college...I wish they'd let me just go for fun...but they are sticks in my mud here! I actually got booted from the Community College here after 1 year because "I had too many credits", lol. They were "so kind" as to give me an AA for all my trouble though...too bad I was there for a transfer degree for Pre-Pharmacy!

Sadly, I have a useless degree that just hinders any job meant for the "uneducated" masses (like fast food, which I refuse to do). But, because I quit work to go to school full-time, my lack of an actual job for the better part of the last 7 years makes me look "lazy" to other employers! I'd like to see them take some of the classes I took and hold a full-time job too! I took full year courses in Biology, General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physics, I even took a full year of Accounting (my instructor begged me to change my major...maybe I should have!) for "fun"! I also took Calculus (and all the other math courses leading to it!

I was disappointed by my Microbiology course, but that was completely due to the "stupid jerk" who was "teaching" the class...all I can remember from that class is how to make Sauerkraut and that Teddy Roosevelt was a Rough Rider...or maybe he led them, lol. I do still love the whole field though and am saving up my pennies for my very own microscope to learn on my own with...I still have all my books and I can order Gram stains and such online.

This is what I mean by off topic, lol. Okay, I'm off to have another cup of tea and maybe load the dishwasher...my kitchen is a biological experiment in the making...I'm a really bad "house girlfriend", lol.

 

[chickenlady08]

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Wow you sound like someone that I would love to meet. I took College chem 111 last semester, oh wow! That is all I can say. I had an A average until I broke my foot in Ocober, then had surgery in Nov. But I stuck with it and unfortunately got my first B for the class, but it is ok. Lol. My plans are for RN and not sure if I will take a class this summer. It would be Anatomy& Phisiology I (spelling) or micro.

Yea u should go back and change ur major, sounds like a smart professor u had.

 

[WhySayWhat]

I know I've been MIA for a while...but my shoulder is finally up to working on the coop again! Come rain or shine (most likely rain), I'll be out tomorrow working on it! Today was a grocery shopping kind of day for me...

Just thought I'd let everyone know that I amn in deed, still around, lol.