Well, maybe not.
Since I live so far from the usual modern day shopping resources, I decided I'd better start up some home food production. When in the country, do as the country do!
Last Saturday I built this garden box. It's up on stilts to cleverly evade the giant slugs roaming my back yard. So far, the lettuce and spinach are safe in their beds.
We also have a chicken. One chicken. My daughter rescued her as a tiny chick from the neighbor's dog. We were pretty sure the soggy, chewed-up thing was going to die, BUT IT DIDN'T. This chicken has some pluck. And just to prove it, she gave us two eggs on her first day of laying.
To celebrate the advent of eggs, we remodeled the chicken's coop from this:
to this:
Now she's got a rain-proof feed box and twice the yard. Maybe next time we'll put in a swimming pool.
