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What I'm Loving and Have a Pinteresting Wed: The one with the Chicks

It't Time for What I'm Loving and Have a Pinteresting Wednesday!   The Blog Hop where you get to share all the things you love and pinned this week.   Grab the button if you are so inclined and join in the fun!

What I'm Loving 

This week I am sharing our chicken coop love.   Now keep in mind that while the basic building is finished there are a few little details I haven't worked on yet. Specifically, the Best Little Hen House in Texas sign for the coop and the Welcome to the Chicken Ranch sign for the gate.  The chickens don't care but I have to trick it out a little.

Partially made, my varagesale saw horses put to good use

In the beginning there was wood and my husband saw that most of the wood was free (reclaimed pallets) and he said 'this is good...for a chicken coop.'  So he began building a frame and used the basic design of his deer stands from our land in East Texas.   

I can't take credit for the building.  My chief job was holding stuff while he cut and screwed things together.  I played the role of wood shop apprentice.  

Ready for customization

When we move the pieces to the chicken area and assembled it, my part started. First up is chicken coop color design.  For this I turned to "The Kid" who said "green is dad's and your favorite and pink is mine." Hard to argue with logic like that!   So I bought the paint and waited...because God had foreseen to replenish the drought ridden lakes, all in two months.  

Legs and painting begin 

I took the opportunity of a dry day to  paint the body.  I added a little flair to the green by throwing in some blue.  If this thing is going to look like an Easter Egg we may as well go all out.  And then...I waited for another dry day.   

Pink and Green, the kiddo picked

And God saw that the chicken coop needed to be done so the chicks could move in so he created a sunny day and I painted the trim pink.   (Last night we added a shingle roof and by we, I mean hubs, but I didn't get a picture because I was busy taking chicken video.) 

The chicks in their new home

Chicken love 

This is their first day out of the coop.  They were in heaven.

These are the 7 babies we got last week that aren't yet ready for the big chick coop.  Yes, we now have 23 chicks.  I can't wait for eggs!   I swear I had no idea how funny chickens were or how lovable.  There is a chance that some of the littlest ones are roosters since the Silkies only come in straight runs.   (That means you get what you get) as opposed to pullets (hens) 

Have a Pinteresting Wednesday:

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To keep with the chicken themed blog, I am sharing some of my Chickens folder in Pinterest, not to be confused with my CHICKEN folder which has recipes,   Don't tell my girls though, they are eggers not dinner.

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Love this sign.  I want to call it the Chicken Ranch because well, we are in Texas and because I also want to do a sign The Best Little Hen House in Texas...get it? Chicken Ranch?

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After this blog, I totally need this sign! 

Okay so what are you loving and pinning this week?

I don't want to Adult Today: 10 reason I want to be a kid again

                                                                                                                   
Every once in a blue moon I get a wild hair and do a Bonus Blog.  Today is that day.  I saw this cute blog hop and wanted to join in.  


So here is why I don't want to be an adult today:

1. Kids get to go to bed early and they complain about it.  I want to go to bed early.  Okay, let's be honest,  I have wanted to go to bed since I woke up.

2. Summer Vacation.  
I want that back.  I want it back now.

3. Endless energy.
I don't know what happened but somewhere between 20-something and 40-something I lost the ability to stay up all night and still go to class, er, work.

4. I want this bedroom 
Yes, I know it is a little boy themed but who cares?

5. I want to eat poprocks and drink a sugar filled coke, not diet!

6 . If I were a kid, I am pretty sure my knees wouldn't ache and my back would let me do handstands.

7. Swimming!
Oh, we swam all day as kids and drank lemonade, and caught fire flies.

8. Cocoa Pebbles:
When you are a kid, you can eat that stuff.  When you are a 40 year old woman, you know better but that doesn't mean you don't want to eat them, or Fruity Pebbles sometimes.

9. No Cellphone:
I know, this is a double edged sword because kids have them and use them all the time but I didn't as a kid and I am pretty sure, I was happier for not having them.

10.  Grandparents:
First, if I were a kid, mine would still be around.  Second, I could go get spoiled by them because that's what grandparents do and Third, I just really, really miss them and would love to sit and talk with them and have some lemonade and catch fire flies and eat a hamburger they grilled with white bread and not care.










 

Hey, It's Okay 71: Dear Spring plus my MLB Shop Wish List

Link up with Amber!

I am feeling a little  lot blah today.  I can't decide if this is a cold, allergies, or I am dying.  You have to love spring....or something.   

So first and foremost for my It's Okay:

*It's okay that with a cold/allergies I actually wish I were dying sometimes.  Looking like Rudolph isn't my idea of a Make-UP statement! 

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This is how I feel today: 

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Want this!

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To make matters worse, my husband woke up with the same sneezing, aching, runny nose, and crusty eyes this morning.  This probably won't end well for either of us.   He is a terrible grump when he feels bad and I just want to sleep when I do.

Okay for the rest of my it's okay post because my feeling like all of the 7 dwarfs except Happy and Doc is probably not the best, most positive, greatest blog post in the history of ever.  

It's okay to want this:

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and this

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and these

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And after having broken my favorite Rangers charm bracelet on Opening Day (is it a sign?) I really want this:

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All that is okay, right?

It is also okay that I really hope my husband sees this blog and orders me that Pandora Bracelet for my birthday.   LOL, who am I kidding, he will probably get me a chicken coop.   

Finally, it's okay that I have my What I'm Loving and Have a Pinteresting Wednesday blog hop post ready to go and that tomorrow my blog is a total theme piece.   If you feel like joining in (Please do!!)  the hop posts at 9pm central tonight.  

Oh, and on that, it is okay that I am not all blog savvy and know how to create those wonderful little buttons that automatically link back to my blog so if you are linking up, it's copy and paste time because someone (Me) slept through computer training in high school.  They still use DOS right?