I'm tired
scooped most of the old impacted hay and evergreen needles out of one of the ore boxes which will be the perimeter of the chicken run --- think eight feet long, 2 feet wide, 3 feet deep, half-inch painted plywood with the interior coated in resin .... it was completely filled with water, mud, and old dead stuff interspersed with roots
so, two completely emptied and scooted over to the coop, this one mostly done --- one large lump of impacted old roots that I can't lift until it dries out a bit more
then two more of them, still mostly full of mud and dead leaves and needles and ROT --- maybe the rain will hold off long enough for us to finish that job
had the bright idea ???? of planting blackberries and roses in them, once I attach the coop fencing to their inner borders, think that would discourage most of the predators around here
at least I can plant flowers and so forth in them, once I get them in place I can refill them with the compost, can also use them to bury the chicken waste I scoop off the sand floor of the coop
the chicks were just loving the earthworms I pulled out of the muck /// have one lawn cart completely full, starting on a second wheelbarrow
then I was just too tired, so pulled out the chaise longue, grabbed a pillow and a book, and lazed partly in the sun, next to the chicken tractor, watched the gals try to catch the flies and whatnot flying things .... they can jump straight up four feet to get them