Moving the Chickens

Dionne and the kids have been doing daily chicken feeding duties at the Collinsville Road property to ease the burden from Danna and Harrison (mom and step-dad). They've got enough chores as it is. However, packing up the kids and driving those few minutes every day---twice a day---is a bit of a pain. The solution? Relocate those 30-something chickens to our rental property for at least 6 months. Fortunately, the landlord is cool with it...perhaps its the bribe of free fresh eggs! So this will be our weekend project, and it's not the first time we've built a chicken coop (never thought I'd be saying that). By the way, we've got some buyers for the eggs now too. Not a lot of money, but it's good to be able to make a few dollars back on these feathered freeloaders!

*sigh* Goodbye New Urbanist

Very, very disappointing but we have not yet heard back from New Urbanist regarding our updated home plans. A while back, we agreed to a partial payment for the plans when they started work (for which they have not yet billed us), but now we're considering sending them a cancellation notice since we've been left hanging without any sort of communication. We're so frustrated with not being able to move forward on our home! Tomorrow, we'll send them a certified letter to let them know we're canceling the order and hopefully this won't end up in court should they decide to bill us anyway.