The weekend came...and it's gone.  You'd never know it had three days this Labor Day Weekend.  We decided to celebrate the day with a little labor.  We started working on our restructuring the chicken yard project... Ginger supervising...Richie Laboring...Ginger gophering    ...Richie Laboring...He's such a wonderful fellow!  I am truly amazed at his many talents.  He takes my ideas and makes them happen.  I love to see him work with putting the boards together to create things.  He makes it seem so easy. 

      First we sectioned off the big chicken yard into three new defined areas.  We are enlarging one pen, adding a new section, and reducing the area that was once the "Big" pen.   Soon we will have  a spot to separate our different breeds; the RI Reds, the Green Eggers, the Game chickens, The specialty birds like Mr. Top Hat and Sultan...The Dominique will remain in the garden pen...

      Next, Richie reinforced our muscadine vine arbor.  It finally grew this year and was pushing down on the netting on top, so now it's properly reinforced...We lightened it's load a little as we picked muscadines the whole time we were working...delicious.  I can't wait for the scuppernog vine at the other corner to take off for they are even sweeter and more delicious.  We had a small sampling this year.  Next year should bring forth plenty of fruit. 

     Then, Richie began to build the new chicken coop in the new section.  He has it all dried in and we ran out of lumber...All we need to do now is add the roost, the nesting boxes, and to expand our watering system....and the wire of course...

     Now I did sit and supervise some...but I also gopher-ed    a little, and I cleaned out two of the chicken coops already in place.  I was able to open the bottom of one up, so it could air out better.  We've found this designs suits our purposes better here in Georgia.  We make a top portion the birds can move up into to roost and get out of the elements.  but the bottom needs air to keep it dried out and for the droppings to escape...otherwise you get a terrible ammonia filled mess at the bottom of the roost.   The other two will need the saws-all and Richie's help to modify them(another things on his Honey do list), but I pulled the boards off the one I could do on my own and cleaned it out well. I also scooped out the droppings at the bottom of another one and took the compost to some of my flower beds to add to the soil.  You never want to put it right at your plants though...it is too hot and will burn them up.   It needs to age some.  But it will make things grow.

     The day just few by, just as the whole weekend did.  Soon it was time for us to feed all the critters and head into town for some grocery shopping for the week ahead as well.  We were going to stock up at Sam's on some of our favorite items...but they closed early for the holiday, so we went next door to the Super Walmart and did our shopping. Now we have salad for the week (I can't wait for my new lettuce plants to grow) and a few odds and ends to make our fresh egg omelets tasty! 

    Soon we were back at home, putting groceries away, mixing up the salad mix for the week, and preparing a bite of supper for our selves.  Somehow Richie managed to even go clean out my goldfish pond pump while I was putting things away...He is so thoughtful!....

    So now we are at day's end, checking messages...seeing if Clay has left a blog of his latest adventure...I corrected my link to his blog so now you can leave a comment on there if you wish..., blogging, saying prayers of thanksgiving for all our many blessings....to include whirl-wind weekends.  May God Bless you all...hope you have a productive and wonderful week filled with blessings!