For a person who seldom goes anywhere except the grocery store and the Dollar General, last week was extraordinarily busy. Work, grandchildren events, yard work, gardening. I even left the property Saturday morning to meet my sister at a gardening expo. Yesterday morning, I woke up with a stuffy head and a sore throat. I'd been attributing the stuffy head to allergies and all the dust I breathed last week while mowing and tilling, but it could be that I picked up a bug at one of the events I attended. In any case, I'm moving kind of slow this morning.
The gardening expo was a good outing. There were vendors and hourly lectures on various topics. My sister and I went to a talk on landscape design, and another on backyard chickens.
The chicken house I bought - what, two years ago? - is still in its unopened box under a love seat on the back porch. Now and then, I'll look at it and think, I should put that together. But then, I think, Nah...it will take days, and it might rain...too hot...too many critters. I guess I'm waiting on a firm decision about getting chickens.
I don't really want chickens. I want their eggs and their poop (for compost), but I don't want the chickens, themselves, or the work that comes with them, or the guilt from exposing them to near-certain death at the hands (claws?) of the other critters domiciled on this property. (Did I ever tell you about the unfortunate Easter ducks?)
But it wouldn't be so bad to have a chicken house, decorated all cute.
With a "Vacancy" sign over the door.
The expo landscape design talk was very basic - practical stuff, like figuring out your "style" before you start digging. The slides that went with the presentation were absolute eye candy. Among the pictures was a picket fence painted with giant echinacea flowers. I don't have a picket fence, but I have a compost bin that needs to be hidden, so I came home and painted one of the 48" x 52" plywood shipping panels that came with our flooring.
The original was far cuter.
At first, I intended to mount this on hinges as a door for the 3-sided compost bin I built. But you know what would happen, don't you? The hinges will give way. The panel will warp and peel. Besides, the compost bin needs air. So now I have this big panel that I don't know what to do with.
I might just nail it to the side of the gardening shed at Nanny's, if she will let me.
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