It’s only Monday, and this has been my week for playing Suzy Seamstress. I mentioned earlier that the new camo net I got for the chicken yard was about a foot short of what was needed. That didn’t bother me because the coop, with its metal roof, needed more shade than the net alone could provide. The Rhode Island Reds seem able to handle any amount of cold, but they’re not crazy about heat and it does get hot inside the coop. I want them happy in there while they’re laying eggs.
I had some lengths of landscape cloth scrounged from elsewhere, but none quite long enough to do a good job of covering the coop without excessive – and unsightly 
– sagging. So yesterday afternoon I sewed two together.
Fastened it down against the wind with wire, and now the coop is sheltered on all sides.
