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Week 5

Which comes first, the chicks or the coop??

Advice to all chick-admirers, build the coop first and the chicks will come. 


Build it and they will come.


Or at the very least, the chicks will get bigger. They will grow faster than you, your husband, your dad, and your good friend, Jodi, can build the coop.



 I think it is necessary to mention that while Scott and I are procrastinators, we started on the coop weeks, eh months ago. It is just taking a really long time to finish.

 The chicks continue to out grow our porch. They are flying onto anything that can be made into a perch.
Lily on my bench

Violet on the edge of the divider

And now on my back!
















So that's the chick news.

And here the coop sits, now with a roof.


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