What home improvement work did you do today?

Yeah - for 3 hens you don't need anything as elaborate as we have. I know plenty of people that have 2-3 (or even as many as 5) chickens in a regular back yard.

 

I first installed one in my master bath in my old house during the great buttwipe shortage of ought-twenty.. Lifechanging indeed. When we built the new house I immediately installed here too.

 

Wow, that looks great!

 

Should eat the whole egg - all the good stuff is in that yolk.

 

Looks nice

 

I just bought these girls yesterday. Unfortunately my broody hen doesn't seem interested.

This will bring us up to 7 and a rooster after we lost 4 to a raccoon last summer.


We end up selling the extra eggs for $4/dozen which pretty much pays for the feed.

 

Twice we’ve had a broody hen that took on the chicks, and twice we’ve had to do it ourselves.

 

Link to the lights?

 

Opened the poooool!

 

Microwave and oven got delivered yesterday and I got them installed. Not to bad but the cooler came in real handy.

 

Nice, what cook top do you have?

 

Sprayed the camellia for white flies, round up for the poison ivy, trimmed along the fence, cleaned the pool and fixed the lawnmower handle. I believe it's time for a beer.

 

I'm no engineer but I'm guessing if these pillars were load bearing they wouldn't be made of particle board? Just discovered one is rotted on our new house. Thinking I should be able to replace these myself...?

 

GE profile induction we don’t have the option for gas.

 

There anything behind it? Those could just be trim around the structure.

 

Nope. Hollow to the other side. Unless the base of the actual beam is gone too. I feel like we'd see sagging up top though.

 

The overhang looks fairly short so it's possible they're decorative but if you pull the whole trim piece off and find a rotted post end you'll have the answer.

 

I put in an induction cooktop when we moved here - love that thing.

 

Doh!
A lot of times the trusses will be designed to span the porch (assuming your house is trusses) and the posts are just decorative. But not always.

might be a smaller post that is wrapped as well.

either way, using particle board for that is completely wrong. Sucks to find that on a newly purchased home

 

Yeah it rocks. I just heard my wife say “man I love this cooktop” as I am typing

 

My daughter has an induction range. It cooks great, but I do like my gas better. Plus the induction scares me. To easy to use it as counter space.

 

I just checked with a flashlight and they are definitely hollow. Safe to assume if one is decorative, the other 3 are too? I might as well replace all 4 with something better looking.

Forgot to mention, the house is trussed. (Trusses?)

 

More than likely especially since it's a corner.

 

Yup. Or shit bag them altogether and enjoy an un-obstructed view.

 

Lawn mowed - 3 miles of walking and wrestling with a DR mower with 42” deck. This is the second mow so I set the deck at 3” where it will stay the rest of the summer.
Had to go slow to make sure everything was fully cut. The watch isn’t super accurate, but you get the idea…


Tomorrow night will be down the driveway and the bottom of the property. Have to switch to the brush deck for that.
And I’m having a beer now.

 

Looks like the hurricane models sometimes haha.
Looks like a good day of work and a well deserved beer!

Knocked my yard out earlier today as well.

 

That’s a hell of a yard. Maybe a crew football game one day.

 

Or the staging area for our Great Canadian Invasion @Azblue - looks like we'd have plenty of room leftover to park our Tundras.