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I wish I were closer to you, I could at least watch Ari ... and if it weren't too far, I could fire up my Trooper and help get pallets
doesn't she have a portable playpen? I know I couldn't have lived without one when my boys were small, and they used it until they were 4 ... I threw a sheet over it and told them it was a "fort" ... or upended it and it was a cave
the thing about pallets .. and I know a good place to get them but it's clear down in Olympia .. quite often they have been at least partially taken apart
so think "lumber", and you just need a good pair of pliers and a pry-bar, to get the nails or staples out of them
I'm a little surprised that no one closer to you on BYC, has offered to babysit or help load ... or offered you a conveyance of some kind
if you are a church-goer .. that is another place to look; many people really enjoy helping .. like my neighbor says, they're piling up 'treasures in heaven'
now our car is a small Toyota Yaris -- but last week we brought home ten 1x1s, 3 feet long; six short slabs of strandboard, painted on one side, and a dozen pieces of laminate flooring (I think it is) 1/2 x 6 and most of them 2 feet long ... plus a couple of 2x4s about 4 feet long (just barely fit in the trunk sideways)
with the old sheds, quite often if you offer to pay for delivery, the people would do it for you .. though they don't mention it in the ad
it may look dorky, but we've moved quite a few things by sticking an old mattress on top of the car, loading the "too big to fit inside" thing on top, then strung ropes across it through the opened windows and fore and aft to bumpers (if you don't have a mattress, a foam pad will work to)
there is ALWAYS a way to do it, and I have confidence that you'll find one, or more
Hey, you're hurting my feelings. We Northenders have offered to help her!!! (see post # 49050!)
AriLovesChickens: I don't think PromisedLand meant helping you build something like the first place winner.
Now that is a serious coop!
didn't mean to hurt anyone's feelings --- I guess I missed the previous posting, was responding to her pain, is all
yes, it's great to have a beautiful coop, but my feeling is, start with the bare minimum of aesthetics, if time is short ... that's why I have my chickens in this tar paper shack (donated by my neighbor after he got rid of his chickens) instead of the beautiful large crate-coop, which I just haven't had the energy to convert (and DH has his own hobbies that take his time and energy, he helped quite a bit getting the run set up, after I figured out how I wanted to do it)
