On a farm you get to build stuff.  You find any old piece of wood laying around and start sawing.  No need for rulers or work benches – just a saw and an old coffee table will do.

There is always extra help around (mostly passing of hammers or nails)…

…but lots of watching and playing.

There is usually a lot of stopping and going when doing farm work too.  These young horses were being taken to the barn to be cart-trained and aren’t too keen on unfamiliar noises such as sawing or hamering.  It is best to stop and watch them go by.

Even though we have light into the night in Alta to keep working on the box, the chickens were wanting a place to sleep.  Still just a shell, the nesting box was placed in the coop.

The chickens were not familiar with this type of box.  They were used to a shed with a chicken-door.  We opened the box right up so they could see inside and get used to the idea.

To help them figure out how to get into the box we removed the back so they could jump in.  We closed it so if they wanted to get out again they had to make their way down the ramp (which in turn taught them the in-way).

The nest will be completed another day (like all farm ventures) but the chickens still love their little warm habitat.  They even left us a thank you present the next morning.