Yesterday had me shashaying a little victory dance as I finally finished my very first shop project evar, and I am so proud! Not bad for a first attempt at carpentry, is it?
The Silkie Condo!
Lacey loves his new home,and tomorrow he gets a new girlfriend to go with it!
The coop is 4' long, 2' wide and 2' tall. Ventilated on both sides, re-inforced with 1/4" hardware cloth (that stuff is a nightmare to cut). Big door for more ventilation and ease of access for cleaning, large ledge to keep the bedding inside. Not too heavy so can be transported. I just need to add a roosting bar and it's all done!Took me about 5 hours working with awkward panels, heavy machinery and recycled materials, trying to design and figure things out as I went along... But I had great fun and can't wait to make the next one, will try to improve on skills with practice :-)
The best part of the day though was ramming the car into the half-shoveled snowbank to finally have access to the grocery store, woo! I rewarded myself with cheese fondue for dinner and a little glass of red wine, it was tasty mmmmm.
I've got enough good, ready-to-go food in the fridge now to have NO excuse for cereal, crackers and toast 3 times a day.
Me and carbs, we're good buddies.
Time to get shake off the cobwebs and get this lovely new day started (did I mention all this rain is melting the dump of snow pretty quickly? Yey!), as a parting gift I'd like to point you to the funniest blog post I've read in a long time, please do take a minute to visit Jayme's blog and her awesome breakup with... well, go see for yourself!
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6 comments:
Sorry to hear you have anti-sleep demons. *shakes fist at Vegas for being out of town*
The condo is GREAT. You're quite good at construction.
Enjoy your weekend and see you on FB. :o)
hi technodoll what's new???? im having pizza woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I nominate you for your own DIY show. Building condo/coops!!! How awesome is that....I would kill myself with a saw. Really, I would.
I hope they enjoy.
You ran into a snowbank? are you supposed to avoid them???
Kathryn, I apparently inherited *some* of my grandpa's carpentry skills - yey!
Farley, I'd love me some pizza mmm! Lucky you! Not much new, just took the dogs for a long walk in the mud - swell, huh? LOL
Mike, two words: paper bag.
Busy Bee, if the snowbank is between your driveway and the road and you need to get out... there is no avoidance! ha ha!
Wow, you did an awesome job.
Glad you got out to the store and had your fondue & wine. Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for the link.
EWWWWWWWWWWW MUD
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