We meant to do that.

After the "snake incident", the hens stopped laying eggs so I was forced to go to the grocery store and buy the $3 per dozen brown cage-free eggs in the recycled carton - this morning I realized I had one store bought egg left and happily my hens had begun laying again last week so I cracked them all into the griddle - hmmmm....can you pick out the expensive store bought egg?

So... the turkeys are going out onto pasture this week. Which means we have to build a hoop house for shade and roosting at night. We have to build this with five days left before we take off for Europe and are gone for three weeks. Yikes!
We download plans, buy all the materials and Rob comes over to help us put this thing together (Good Lord, what would we do without the VanVleets? No wonder we had to move closer to them)

So... the plans are horrible. John and Rob make constant trips back to the store for more/different supplies, it's 100 degrees outside and we have to set up an old 10x10 shade canopy so the boys don't pass out. They get to the final framing stage where the hoops are put into place and all the hoops begin to buckle. Needless to say, our first attempt at a hoop house actually turned into an A frame - we're gonna patent it.


Whatever, it works. We threw a tarp on it and voila - portable shade any turkey would love. John is thinking....where did we go wrong????


Rob came back this morning for round two (bless that man) and some modifications in the plans were made. Stay tuned. This gets good.