Just me and God

Sometimes I am up and about so early there is no one but God about with me at that time. All is quiet. No rumbling on the dirt, washboard road. Sane people are still in bed. Since I was in bed with lights out last night at 9 p.m. I was up this a.m. at 4. Seven hours of good sleep is a very nice accomplishment for an old lady. The rooster has not even made a peep yet.

I have a fan going, bringing in the outside air and it is COOL! Note that word: COOL. I think cool weather is actually going to happen. So nice.

Yesterday, when I got home from church, I met "Da Boys" here in my house. They had installed my new Sony DVD, video player. (HEY, I JUST HEARD THE ROOSTER!) I am so grateful with my very own little support group here in my commune.

BB built a chicken coop for me on Saturday. I helped a little. Sometimes it took four hands. BB & I are such rednecks. True Jeff Foxworthy people. We love to make something out of nothing. BB says there are a group of people who are called "Makers". They even have a magazine. They are people like us who take discarded items and make new, useful items from trash. That is what we did to make my chicken coop. BB brought home some discarded framework, I don't know what it was used for, and the framework was about 4 1/2' - 5' square. He brought home several of those squares. He/we put them together to form a chicken coop. I had some old sheets and curtains that I had made for my patio up in Scottsdale that I had used down here to cover my garden plants in the winter to keep them from freezing (it DOES freeze here in the winter nights) and we used them to make walls for the chickn coop. Note: right now, the only reason the chickens need walls is for shade in the daytime. BB said he will find something more substantual sometime. The roof is made from a huge blackboard. (the roof had not been installed yet when this picture was taken) Schools no longer use blackboards/chalkboards. They use Smartboards. If you don't know what those are, you are in for an education as far as the modern education technology is concerned. Smartboards are wonderful.
So, hopefully the pictures of my redneck chicken coop are still on my camera. I tried to get them on here yesterday and the pictures disappeared. I have taken some old, very large clay flower pots, filled them with dry burmuda grass and made nest for the chickens. BB even affixed an upstairs for the chickens to roost in at night. Now, if the stupid chickens can just find their new home. Chickens are so stupid and such instinct creatures that they just keep scrunching up against the weeds in the puny shade they provide. I guess with such tiny heads one cannot expect much more.

BEHOLD!! THE NEW HOME FOR MY CHICKENS!!