Wow! Got a lot done today! First thing this morning Lath woke up and said,
"Get up! We're going to build a new dog pen today." So, off we went!
First we had to move to old cotton pickers that were sitting next to the existing pen. I'm not sure why we have these since we do not grow cotton. Then we cut down a small tree and some limbs and sticks that were in the way. Then it was time to make the walls. We have a tremendous amount of junk on our farm. Lath went to the "stuff pile" and got several chain-link fence gates. We propped these up and tied them together with wire. This took longer than you would think. . . we finished this much by lunch time. Whew!
After lunch we got inside the pen and built Dan the Beagle a dog house. We had to separate Dan from Daisy, Molly, and Lucy because one of the girls is in heat and we don't want her bred. So, to build the house we first took some scrap 4x4s and cut them the same height for the corners. Then we made the rest of the frame out of 2x4s. The house sits up about a foot off the ground. I don't know why, but we always build dog houses like this. We used a piece of ply-board for the floor and front, nailed some scrap vinyl siding up for the back and side walls, and finished it off with a tin roof. Yes. It was very redneck. And don't even ask me where we get all this scrap junk. I have no idea.
Well, the sun was setting and we cleaned up the pen and set Dan in his new house. I think he is satisfied. We ended the day with some chicken strips, black-eyed peas, and corn bread. I also made a yummy home-made peach pie with some peaches that I had in the freezer from last summer. Delicious. Ah, the perfect ending to a long day.
I had fun this day.
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