Cinder Block

We finally got around to tackling the garage walls.

We intended on starting on them last weekend,

but we had a doozey of a windstorm that Friday night that caused a bit of a detour -

it blew off part of the hen house roof.

Dean put a new roof on it using materials saved from the garage roof demolition.

Well, actually we needed to finish enclosing the coop too.

And the floor needed repair 

and the roost needed to be put up 

and the nesting boxes needed to be secured.

Long story short...

the hen house is complete and my 'girls' 

are all settled in and poppin' out eggs like crazy.

So, on Saturday this is what we did...

(all.day.long)

Dean took 'em down and handed 'em to me...

 and I stacked 'em up.

We figure there's about 500, counting the ones we had to scrap because they were broken.

Most of them came off real easy.

Anybody wanna buy cinder block?

When they're cleaned up they look like new.

Now we've got to tackle the brick.

We've done some of it already. It's time consuming because 

we are cleaning them individually to be reused for the reconstruction.

I think I'm just going to work on them after school everyday for a few hours til it's done so 

Mr & Me can work together on other things when he gets home in the evenings.

This, by far, was the worst part.

(for me, anyway)

Gobs and gobs of spiders nests 

 lurking between the inner cinder block wall and the outer brick.

I really, really, really detest spiders.

We were warned by a few people familiar with 1950's cinder 

block wall construction that this would be an arduous task that would likely require heavy equipment. 

They said the cinder block were probably filled with concrete and rebar. 

NOT!

We were very happy to find that this was not the case.

That's it for today's update.

Thanks for stoppin' by.