Ok, I am honestly a little sick of hearing about chickens, talking about chickens, looking at chickens, preparing for chickens and you probably all are too. I think Alex is more excited about this than he was about finding out we were pregnant-and that took a lot of time and effort!
If you know and love Alex like I do, then you know that he has a tendency to go a little overboard with everything he does. The chickens are no exception. When we started this journey last Friday, he called me and said that he found a free chicken coop and 2 free chickens and could he please have them. I gave in and said if it is all free that he has permission, but he will be responsible for the care of them, especially anything poop related. I have enough poop to clean up around this house.
Fast forward to this week. The free chickens had already been taken and of course the free coop is just not up to Alex standards. Is he going to use the materials he has and just improve the coop? No! He has to buy all new materials and start from scratch. Did he find any other free chickens? No! He bought fancy pants chickens on-line and the number has been upped from 2 to 4. I just have to shrug my shoulders and smile.
Here's a picture of our chicken coop with our little monkey in it. That's our neighbor Gabe playing with him. Please enjoy this simple man's coop while it lasts. If you know and love Alex like I do, then you know that he has a tendency to go a little overboard with everything he does. The chickens are no exception. When we started this journey last Friday, he called me and said that he found a free chicken coop and 2 free chickens and could he please have them. I gave in and said if it is all free that he has permission, but he will be responsible for the care of them, especially anything poop related. I have enough poop to clean up around this house.
Fast forward to this week. The free chickens had already been taken and of course the free coop is just not up to Alex standards. Is he going to use the materials he has and just improve the coop? No! He has to buy all new materials and start from scratch. Did he find any other free chickens? No! He bought fancy pants chickens on-line and the number has been upped from 2 to 4. I just have to shrug my shoulders and smile.
I would also like to add that Alex owes me an apology for making fun of the chicken fabric I re-upholstered our chair in. I obviously knew we were chicken people long before he realized it.
3 comments:
As a project manager, I avoid being friendly to any one who displays habits of gold plating. I will remove Alex from my speed dial immediately.
This is clearly Lettie's exaggerated version. Here's the true story. Lettie agreed to have chickens, so I researched coops and hens and have handled all the details. The End.
You should have gotten another iguana...
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