Well. I have some mobile coop repairs to do. Because it has been so cold, we haven't been moving them as the wheels and legs have been frozen to the ground. Well, apparently we waited too long for one of them. Since it was in the upper 20's today, my FIL decided to move the two big mobile coops. The first one was unstuck and moved with a good bit of effort. The second one was a different story we got the wheels and the legs unstuck and we were perplexed as to why the coop just did not want to move... at all. So we tried the brute force approach and got a lever to move it laterally. after moving it 6 inches, I noticed I could see one of the perches below the frame. The 1inch welded wire mesh was cemented to the ground by frozen poo and we had forcibly ripped the mesh and several of the perches right off the frame. I we blocked the holes in the mesh as best we could. I'm praying that the predators stay away until Sunday when we will get a significant thaw and we can make the coop predator proof again. My FIL and I will also take this chance to do some upgrades to the coop (wider perches a roof on a hinge). But this SUCKS monkey taters. I'll take some pictures of the damage when we do the repair job this weekend.
On a more happy note, MD sounds worse but isn't running a fever anymore and has more energy. His lungs are still clear and he is getting better. My FIL is also working to insulate the first floor of the house with the 1/4" plywood DH and I bought last night. It seems to be helping. He got 80% of one room done (the floor of the closets is all that is left and that will be a royal pain in the tater).
Also, I have a plan for redoing the walls in my house that will be true to what the house looks like. I will buy more of that plywood, rip it into roughly 6" wide boards length wise, sand and put a white-wash stain on them, put something like tyvek up on the walls and staple these boards up on the walls over the tyvek to have a faux ship-lap look. We currently have walls that are similar in appearance to ship-lap, but the boards are narrower and covered in layers of lead paint that are peeling. I want to do this as a way to encapsulate the lead paint that is there so that the Milk Drinker and any future kids we have won't peel and eat the paint.
On a more happy note, MD sounds worse but isn't running a fever anymore and has more energy. His lungs are still clear and he is getting better. My FIL is also working to insulate the first floor of the house with the 1/4" plywood DH and I bought last night. It seems to be helping. He got 80% of one room done (the floor of the closets is all that is left and that will be a royal pain in the tater).
Also, I have a plan for redoing the walls in my house that will be true to what the house looks like. I will buy more of that plywood, rip it into roughly 6" wide boards length wise, sand and put a white-wash stain on them, put something like tyvek up on the walls and staple these boards up on the walls over the tyvek to have a faux ship-lap look. We currently have walls that are similar in appearance to ship-lap, but the boards are narrower and covered in layers of lead paint that are peeling. I want to do this as a way to encapsulate the lead paint that is there so that the Milk Drinker and any future kids we have won't peel and eat the paint.
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Victory was mine!!! For a little while... dun dun duhn!
