This particular entry is one that I posted over at my creation blog over a month and a half ago. I had forgotten about it quite honestly and had meant to post it here, but had never gotten around to it. I would appreciate any advice about keeping chickens and will keep you posted as to when we get the birds, more than likely sometime in September.

May 23, 2009 

  My dreams of having chickens someday is becomming a reality!

But a coop is still the missing link in my dream. Tim and Samuel have been very busy these past few weeks at preparing a part of one of our barns to serve the purpose of housing my birds. 

   We needed a concrete floor for the coop so Tim got on the horn and ordered it up.

Okay, I'm just going to be real honest with you folks, I don't know the difference between concrete and cement. so I may be calling it both.  

   Joy of joys! There aren't many things that will make a five year old boy happier than seeing a cement mixing truck making it's way up the drive.

We watched the driver maneuver the truck back behind Barn #1. The chute that protrudes from the barrel of the mixer was then carefully positioned through the opening in the barn wall that Tim had cut out earlier.

Then the fun began.   Oh my, this stuff felt like slogging around in oatmeal. I must say that if you ever have the opportunity to do this, do it. Everytime I heard the engine rev up more concrete came pouring down the chute in large amounts that immediately swelled around our boots. For some odd reason I kept thinking about all those old mob movies where some guy would get dumped in a lake with concrete shoes. Sorry, just sharing.

No, I didn't put my handprints in it, I wished I had.

Hopefully there will be a future post about the actual chickens coming home to roost here at our little homestead.

Until later my cool and over-the-top blogging buddies, Julie

(Can you tell I'm in a really good mood...that's cuz I'm gettin chickens!)