Friday, September 14, 2012

Over My Head


Of course I am talking about the roof, the roof of my chicken coop that is now almost finished. In the beginning I thought, build a chicken coop no problem. But one thing I didn’t realize is that in all of the stuff I have built with dad and around the house I have not designed a roof…

Well The posts I set in the back sank of course, Which lowered the initial height of the roof and after the roofing began with 3 guys on top they sank some more, nearly to the point of being level…So Oxford called in an expert carpenter, Emess’s brother. And long story short he has corrected the roof by building braces similar to what I have seen made in the U.S. like a triangular support system where the peak of triangle is flush with the back of the roof and building. With the help of several of the guys here the work is almost finished and they will work for a few hours in the morning to finished panning the roof.

A friend of mine is going to Guinea for me in the next week or two to buy some baby chickens that are supposed to be top of line English type laying hens, every serious poultry producer here goes to Guinea for the laying hens because they are much cheaper and better quality.

All of the beds have been prepared at newsteps for the vegetables and in the past two days we have planted most of them with Corn, Okra, Beans, and Sweet Potatoes. Speaking of Sweet Potatoes Jesi and I fried up some sweet potato chips tonight that were awesome! But they were not as good as the Onion petals we made that rival Arby’s, we just needed the southwestern sauce they use. We made them with flour, dehydrated milk, water, salt and pepper and they were delicious especially with some Ketchup!

Heading to the beach in the morning to do some surfing and relax after another good weeks work. I have also made ground on my container this week finally, next week just may be the week. 

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