Front Yard View.

It's coming along nicely.  

Storage

With a puppy you seem to collect a lot of puppy stuff.  The pile of treats, leashes, and baggies on our little dresser quickly became accessible to Honker because he's grown so fast.  We needed a new plan.  After a trip to a local vintage sale and Papa Hen's handiness, we got ourselves a new storage system.

We are still looking for the perfect magnets and some hooks to go beside the nesting box shelves, but otherwise it's perfect.  Honker can't reach into it and we can.  Phew!

You might notice something above the nesting box shelves, an adornment.  It was stitched by Mama Hen's Mama and it's a beauty.  Mama Hen's Mama is pretty handy herself!
Do you recognize our chickens in the picture?

Upgrade

The chickens needed a little upgrade to the floor of Red Door Coop.  Literally, the floor needed to go up!  Over the past three years, the gravel had become packed down and scooped out in our daily cleanings.  Papa and Mama Hen kicked out the girls yesterday and let them play in the chicken yard and pen.  While the chickens played we opened 20 bags of gravel and spread them in the coop.  We also cleaned out under the roost and nesting boxes and replaced all the pine shavings with a sprinkling of one of our new favorite chicken products, Nesting Box Blend herbs for chickens.

The chickens didn't seem too impressed with anything except the new dirt in the chicken bath.