We still need to finish installing the little chicken door and the interior wall, but the exterior is complete! I might have installed t...

We had a beautiful sunny day last Thursday so Jeff, Eric and Aaron got started on our chicken coop/garden shed. They spent about half a day ...

Our spring weather finally arrived, and the guys got the mulch spread out in the yard. Yeah!! We got our driveway back. The front plantin...

First off, most important, Happy Pi Day! Jeff is currently in the kitchen making some Pi Day creation, so if there's a picture later, I...

Aaron and Jeff and have been working hard at clearing out the lower portion of our backyard. In the years since we got rid of the chickens t...

I guess we got burned out on working on the house, so we've enjoyed an extended vacation from working on it. And we really haven't b...

Jeff just found Anya, our favorite laying hen, in the bottom of the chicken coop dead. There were no signs of trauma. We're not sure wha...

I ran across a blog post today at Hyperbole and a Half that perfectly describes us right now. I wish I could write so well about my failure...

We went and bought two cute windows for the shed/coop project from Eric in SE Portland this afternoon. They're a real nice size, I thi...

Last year I designed a cute little chicken coop . It was cute and probably would have worked, but it really only housed the chickens. We...

Today's nice weather found us outside starting some yard projects. Jeff resumed work on digging out the new urbanite path he started l...

Our chickens have recently become escape artists. We've come home several times to find them grazing in our neighbors' yards. Our ne...

We've been trying to spend some time everyday working on small house improvement projects. And during the evenings, this week, we've...

The great fall leaf migration has begun! And many of our neighbors appreciated our afternoon efforts as we mostly cleaned up their yards. (W...

Today was finally the day we got to go pick up our 55 plants from the Audubon Society Native Plant Sale. We spent quite a while juggling aro...

Our neighbor has kindly agreed to open and close our chicken coop for us so we get to slip out of town for a few days to visit family. Yeah!...

We'd like to go travel down to California later in the month, but with the daily responsibility of opening and closing the chicken house...

Our poor chickens have been having a horrible time trying to figure out where to lay their eggs. Their coop has nest boxes, but they sleep i...

Our tree-lined street is so pretty right now. Too bad I didn't take a picture about a week ago — before we had two days of steady wind t...