Yup. Three years and out for camo net.

Sorry, I had this all ready to go first thing this morning but my connection went away. Then we’ve been busy till now.

But yeah: The last windstorm (peak gusts 63 mph, which is a respectable gale) did the last of the bad thing to the camo netting on the chickens’ top cover.

Fortunately, a Generous Reader sent me a big section of new camo netting, and in the very nick of time.

So the part that needs good shade still has it. And thanks very much!

Actually I’m thinking seriously of retiring the Fortress of Attitude as a chicken yard and converting it into a dog kennel. LB’s urinary problems have returned – no, not bloody urine, but an urgency he never suffered from before. So much so that – just in time for Big Brother’s visit – he has had three indoor accidents this week alone. That never happened before, even when he was a puppy. I have him on another course of antibiotics, which he loves. But it may no longer be possible to leave him in the cabin when I’m not there. If I convert the chicken coop to a dog house and clean out all that straw, the Fortress would make a dandy dog run.

And truthfully, the whole concept of maintaining two separate flocks as redundancy in case of predator attack has not proven all that useful. Makes more sense to have one flock you only have to tend one time. So that’s on my mind. I’d still need the shade cover, even though I could stop worrying about hawks and owls.