With my graveling being centered in the backyard area, getting a load down gets done a lot faster than normal. Instead of having to use the wheelbarrow to cart loads of gravel across a span of yard to a destination spot, all I have to do is just back the truck up to the edge of the gravel that has been already laid and just shovel right from the truck and onto the ground. As before, I'm continuing to lay a path approximately 12ft wide from the side path leading back to the fuel shed. Once I reach the fuel shed and the South fence, I can then cover some of the area around the fuel shed and the Southwest fence line, up to the old wood/pipe rack. From there I can lay a little gravel down around the edges of the auto parts and scrap area, after cleaning up some of the area. At that point I will start laying gravel down over the area just behind the garden fence where the tow dolly is currently parked then start laying a path due east. As I get more projects done and more crap cleaned up around the yard, I will be able to clear more ground that will allow me to lay gravel in spots that I missed or was otherwise unable to cover due to the coverage by foreign material. All of this will coincide with the construction of the interior fences around the garden, as well as the perimeter fences. Eventually I'll manage to get the compound set up the way I wanted to. Another thing we were surprised with today was more visitors. If you've been following the occurrences around here, you'll know that the visitors are typically of the animal variety, and as is the case here, that animal is typically avian in nature. In this case it was some more chicks. Yep, more baby chickens were hatched out by a broody hen. Acquisition of these baby birds was met with some resistance as the momma hen and patrolling roosters would attest to. After gathering the baby chickens and getting them set up, we discovered more eggs in the nest area, which happened to be the old doghouse that was supposed to be used by Old Dog during the cooler nights or when it was raining. We had an old blanket in the house for the dog but the hen that hatched these chickens hijacked this doghouse, pretty much evicting Old Dog for the foreseeable future. Once the smoke cleared, the hen went right back into the doghouse to sit on the batch of eggs within. There's around another six eggs in the nest, so who knows, we might end up with more baby chickens if these eggs are fertilized and viable. It is these occurrences that make having the chickens around worthwhile, as they end up providing eggs and in some cases, more chickens. This keeps us from having to buy more chicks as the current population is doing their job of further populating the compound with more birds. Of course I still want to add more ducks, even turkeys and some other oddballs, like guineas, to the flock. With the fitting out of the Minivan Chicken Coop, we will be plenty able to handle the load increase.
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