Muddin' and Putting up a Playpen

 After a few days and nights of rain, the chicken yard looks like a mud pit which is just dandy when there's work to be done in there...

...but we put on our boots and went muddin' to get the job done.

 After an hour of traipsing in and out of the coop and its surrounding mud... for tools and fencing, feeders and waterers, straw and baby chicks...

 ...we now have a temporary play pen in the coop! Yay for no more smelly chicks in the basement (as anyone who has ever brooded chicks in their house well knows!)