Cooter, Help! Zambo gets Betty too hot

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Well, several neighbors have them. So I picked their brains to learn all their mistakes and regrets. That coop should solve most, if not all, of their problems.

Specifically regard the mess, that’s why I built my coop mobile. Well, as soon as the wheelbarrow wheels go on. Every few days, simply lift the handles and move a few feet to a fresh patch of grass. I have several acres of grass this can moved around in.

Raccoons, foxes, hawks, squirrels are some of the others issues this should solve. I’ve already had two neighbors stop by as they were walking the neighborhood last night and asked me to build them one :lol:
I was referring to before you get them in the coop.

Well you hope they are smart enough to get in the coop when the hawk flies by! :lol:

They are entertaining though!
 

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I was referring to before you get them in the coop.

Well you hope they are smart enough to get in the coop when the hawk flies by! :lol:

They are entertaining though!

yeah, the garage pen is cleaned out every couple of days.

As for the hawks.... they’ll never leave that coop. Confined forever.
 

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yeah, the garage pen is cleaned out every couple of days.

As for the hawks.... they’ll never leave that coop. Confined forever.
Wait till they start flying...well flying is a little liberal use of the term...
 

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yeah, the garage pen is cleaned out every couple of days.

As for the hawks.... they’ll never leave that coop. Confined forever.

So you'll not be able to use the term "free range" on your sign
 

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You know chickens love to scavenge bugs. Back in the day, houses were built off-grade and people didn't close the crawl space in. They would let the chickens run loose and they would go up under the house and eat the termites. They would also eat the caterpillars and squash bugs in the garden. This was before chlordane.
 

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A couple of years ago I was at the in-laws house and my MIL asked me to look at a pocket door that was stuck open and wouldn't budge. As my FIL is fairly handy, I figured it was going to be something pretty serious.
I take a look at it and sure enough, it won't budge. Shining a flashlight through the gap between the door and the trim, I can't see anything wrong with the track and can't see any obstructions, but when I try to close it nothing. I don't know made me try this, but I eventually tried closing it by pulling on the actual door at the top a couple of inches from the track. This leads me to discover that whatever is holding the door back is at the bottom, not the top. Turns out my MIL had recently had new base boards put in in the room parallel to the door and the brilliant installers had used finishing nails which were long enough to go through the moulding and the pocket door frame into the actual door, basically nailing it open. Using a metal yard stick it was a simple thing to bend the nails and allow the door to slide as designed. Took much longer to figure out the problem than to fix it! As a bonus, my MIL, for a couple of minutes anyway, thought I was brilliant.

GBM, I tried to send you a PM but looks like your PM's are turned off....
 

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Yesterday, I did the final coat of stain on my rafters (so I can hopefully install them today). I checked on them at dusk... and there were a million lovebugs stuck to them. :facepalm:

Fuking lovebugs. I hope they all had a slow miserable death.
 

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Painting the cornhole boards woot woot! Going for the retro look we wore against Auburn. Out flying now but when I get back it’s time for the orange stripes and a white circle F.
 

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Ocala. Horse country.

Looks nice. I haven't been to Ocala in years, probably 15 or more. I went to the fire college there for some classes when I was on the JFRD. We used to go there for Jai lai when I worked at Lake Waugburg for a couple of summers.
 

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Looks nice. I haven't been to Ocala in years, probably 15 or more. I went to the fire college there for some classes when I was on the JFRD. We used to go there for Jai lai when I worked at Lake Waugburg for a couple of summers.

Fire College is still going strong. The Poker Room way north of town with that Jai Lai is still there. What a hilarious place. A hilarious, crusty, smokey, dirty, dump of a place. Though all the Jai Lai is simulcast from Miami. They have to show it in order to have poker tables.

Never thought I would end up here. Left Jax in 2009 for an opportunity to work with some college friends here. One of the best decisions of my life. No traffic (at all). Affordable. Plenty of land. An hour to Tampa or Orlando and barely 30 minutes to Gainesville.
 

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WTF is going on in here?

Probably the most random conversation you can imagine based loosely around home chores/projects. Let's see... front door refinish, bar build, dog house build, garage wall replacement, chicken coop build, pocket door repair, cornhole paint job, and pool pergola build :lol:

We just need something to do with Legos
 

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Probably the most random conversation you can imagine based loosely around home chores/projects. Let's see... front door refinish, bar build, dog house build, garage wall replacement, chicken coop build, pocket door repair, cornhole paint job, and pool pergola build :lol:

We just need something to do with Legos
You forgot "pocket door repair, repair" :lol:
 

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