Resting today

 glass lizard we found while redoing chicken run

It was good sized and I was told they thought they saw another out there 

Interesting clouds from front blowing in

Well over the weekend we got the coop redone and run moved over and redone. I am so very sun burnt and tired especially from having to convince the kids to help at the very least watch their little sister so I could work and they kept passing her off on each other. Poor kid. The run was moved over to the other side and actually looks a lot nice and has a better design (Ran chicken wire along the bottom so they couldn't dig all the grass up ) and has a trap door where we don't have to go in to open it. Just pull a cord. Then the inside we shrank it up  enough to put in a storage area on one side (to make sure we fit within regulations on distance as far as how close it was to the neighboring yard) I decided to make a half wall with chicken wire at top so we could look in from the open storage area which keeps it vented as well as sheltered. Fixed their feed trough (a refurbished rain gutter) to the wall and threw in some fresh shavings. Will take pics later today. They seem pretty happy though confused with all the changes. Found a small dog igloo for my oldest girl's A frame guinea pig hut for shelter for them (we are keeping that when she moves and using it for something else and getting her a new cage) It was 3 bucks at a yard sale. Also found a desk for my son for $5.00 that is really nice old style for his homeschooling (he asked for a desk) We have to go sign the papers this week. We were going to last week but too much going on. We moved the rain barrel over (fun to do while it is full....lost some water but not too much) my garden is doing good still. Have spent all week calling the city about their ordinance on fencing and can NOT get anyone to tell me anything. Fixing to go off what I think it is and put it up anyway or see if there is someplace else I can find out about ordinances. Getting annoyed with that part of it. Going to mow soon and do some more clean up etc. It is all ready getting pretty hot. The last two days that I've been working outside it has been in the 90s. Not ready for that and they've been saying it looks like this summer has the potential to look like last years. Today has been cooler....of course since I am not working outside LOL We do have errands to run though. We also found a glass lizard which was pretty good sized. We caught a couple of small mice that were hiding under the boards and where the chickens ate all the grass off the ground in the old run we turned the soil up and gathered earth worms to possibly try to make a worm bucket out of and are making that area a flower garden.