Chicken Coop Painting

For Family Home Evening last night Marc talked to us about letting our light shine (an article in this month's Ensign) and then we went outside to work as a family to paint our new chicken coop. Yes, we are getting chickens. In fact I think they are supposed to be here in a week! We are getting six hens. We are trying to be as self sufficient as we can. My peas are coming up in the garden and my carrots have even made an appearance.

So anyway, here we are painting our chicken coop. Even 3 got in on the work! 9 didn't last to the end because he hated the feel of the paint on his hands, but he helped for a bit. 17 and 13 hung in there till the end. And I didn't help much because the fumes made me sick—but, I took the pictures! This is just the primer. We are going to be painting it sage green, plum and cream—it will be fun, I will post the final pics when it is finished.




Also, thank you to all of you for the wonderful things you said in response to the post below. For those of you who have not yet read it—read below—I won't spoil it for you...