The last week or so, I’ve been working on building a chicken house in our yard. It’s involved a few trips to different hardware stores (no Bunnings in Rwanda!) and a trip to the local sawmill to buy wood. Both Catherine and the kids have been heavily involved; Catherine sewing lengths of chicken wire together, Will hammering in nails, and Hannah just generally being enthusiastic about everything and getting as muddy as possible.
Did I mention the mud… Yes, well we’ve had an unseasonal ‘short wet’ season in the middle of the dry the last week or so. Which has converted dirt everywhere into sticky mud that will build up on your shoes to centimetres deep, and then, if you are a small child, can then be walked obliviously through three rooms of white tiled floors in about 10 seconds. A great time for a building project!
Eventually though, we finished it. Nepo is off on a 1 1/2 hour bike ride tomorrow am to pick up chickens for us from the special chicken market. And the kids and I road tested the chicken house this morning straight after breakfast (hence the toothbrush):
Which leaves us wondering: where will the chickens live now that the kids have got a new house?
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