May

May has been a fun month.  I found an excellent, informative grilling cookbook and we spent a couple weeks cooking nearly everything we ate on the grill.  This chicken was amazing and so was the stock it made.

The  kids have been anxious to get the bikes out since the weather has been warming up.  Sammy had her helmet on waiting for me to get the bikes down.

We had a late spring hail storm that shredded a lot of tender new growth like these seedlings.  Then it poured rain in sheets and buckets filling up our french drain out front by the driveway, where Cooper loves to run.

The bathroom is almost done!!!  The shelves and the mirror are in and the cabinet it almost finished.  We had a hard time get the frame square.  Apparently making furniture requires a little more skill than building a chicken coop.  When we broke the other cabinet trying to remove it from the bathroom, I looked at what it would cost to replace it.  Cheap, particle board cabinets from big-box home improvement stores started around $200.  Nicer wooden cabinets in the style I wanted started around $300.  The cabinet we built cost us $250 in  materials and tools we had to buy.  $175 for the all the wood (including the shelves) in red oak and local hemlock and $50 for a clamp, a jig and stain. 

All we have left to do is stain it, install it, plumb it and we're finally done!!  The next project will be building a better laying box from the hens.  I plan on using cedar fence slats we saved when we replaced the south section of fence.  We have a huge pile.