This “building” was here when we bought the place.  I’m not sure why it’s here or what they had intended to use it for.

It’s about 4′ wide and 12′ long.  He’s thinking he’ll divide it almost in half . . maybe make one section 4′ x 5′ for the 5 bantams and the other section will be 4′ x 7′ for the 6 Dominiques.

Vince can fence off this area under the trees and split it up so they’ll each have a good sized run and some tree cover.  We’ll probably have to cover it to keep them from flying over into the other’s run.  Since we’re going to have roosters, we don’t want the bantams breeding with the Dominiques.

It’s not too far from the front of the house so when we’re sitting out on the porch, we could see the chickens and if there are roosters, and I’m sure there are, we won’t have any trouble hearing them crow.  That’s a good thing . . at least for now!  We may change our mind later about that.

There’s lots of work to be done to make it what Vince wants it to be but at least it’s a start and maybe if he can get the builder over here soon, they can get this thing made into a chicken duplex.

Vince has been real busy planting trees and didn’t want to have to plant any other trees right now but he loves persimmons and I thought it would be nice to see if I could find him a persimmon tree.  We both love sugar pears and there was a tree in MO where we could pick as many sugar pears as we wanted.  Here, we found some at Sam’s Club but buying them already picked is nothing like going out and picking your own.  I’ve told my dad about the sugar pears and he had never had them but he’s been searching for a sugar pear tree.  Then I started searching for them and couldn’t find them.  I looked at the label on the box of sugar pears we bought at Sam’s to see if it had any other name and it didn’t . . just sugar pears.

While looking online for persimmon trees, which were already sold out or it was too late to ship them to our area, I came across this . . “also called sugar or candy pears”!  How could I pass that up?  Since we already had a full size pear tree, I ordered two dwarf sugar pears.  That way, if I need to net them to keep the birds off them, it will be easier.

I didn’t mention that I’d ordered two more fruit trees (and a cherry tree) til they arrived.  Vince opened the box and said “What the heck??”

Out came the tools — two wheel barrows . . why two?  The big tiller, the little tiller . .

That man of mine knows how to plant a tree!

He’s so proud of himself for thinking of using that little tiller to grind up the dirt.  By the time he’s done with it, it’s about the texture of baby powder!

Now we just have to patiently wait til we can walk right out in our yard and pick figs, peaches, pears, pomegranates and cherries and I think I’ll be in big trouble if I bring home any more trees for Vince to plant . . at least for a while.