ALL IN A DAY'S WORK!

We've now officially gone from "Poultry Palace" to "Chicken Mansion" to "Fowl Complex." This thing is huge!

That was then:

This is now:

Tuesday's fishing expedition was cancelled, so we took that opportunity to whip out a goose pen (and when I say "we," I mostly mean Big John). The posts had set a couple of days before, so we ran the cross boards and rafters,

 screwed down the tin roof (in a pretty strong South wind - tricky),

and stretched the wire.

That's all there was to it! Except that the nail gun picked this moment to quit working. Nailing into treated lumber, in the 100 degree heat, with 100% humidity is second on the Fun-O-Meter only to pouring concrete. But we're done (that is really never true around here, but it makes Big John feel better to hear me say it!), save for the door. We stretched wire over the door opening for now, as we (Big John) won't have time for any more construction until we return from Arkansas. I'm going to surprise him this weekend by building the door myself!! Stay tuned for that adventure!