Comments on: Bernie Rocks, Nest Box, Sawmill, and Spiny Things

By: lisa

lisa — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:38:09 +0000

Wow, you are certainly lucky to have Bernie!! My dad is pretty crafty also, but he is getting older and doesn’t do as much as he used to. My Tom has so much to do at our house and his parents house that he has practically no time for handy work. He has told me that he will build some new nesting boxes for my baby coop but haven’t seen any yet. They have nest now but they would rather lay them in the feeder and anywhere else in that coop. Those girls are funny. The nest box is fantastic looking and exactly what I need. I will show hubby to see what he says. I really want to run electric out there 1st, but might have to run an extension cord like last year.

The soap looks wonderful and definitely love the instructions, I would have cracked up trying to figure them out. LOL

How is my Duke doing?

By: frugalmom

frugalmom — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:53:56 +0000

Nice double decker nest box. That Bernie. Hes so good to you. And I like the fact that he made it bigger than you had requested. Im sure he was thinking of all the possibilities that “bigger” would provide…….I mean, cuz you know..48 chickens…you gotta get the most out of your space in there.

Oh, and are those curtains gonna be faux blue denim or baby bunny print?

By: basicliving

basicliving — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:05:55 +0000

Katey – *snort* I did not even make the connection between Asian Plum soap and those instructions. I’m a little slow sometimes

Oz Girl – Nothing like handy husbands. And you really need to be careful for the spiny things. They pop up at the most unexpected times. Dangerous stuff, those spiny things.

By: Oz Girl

Oz Girl — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:14:29 +0000

I love being married to a guy who is handy with his hands… and his tools! He built shelves for the shed attached to the garage last weekend, and so I got that area all organized. There’s still plenty of shelf space left for future organizing too. He was so thrilled with his shelves, he’s planning on more and bigger shelves for our wreck of a garage – that’s another story. This past spring, he built a lean-to for one of our horses, using almost all of our own materials (scrap that he keeps, of course!) We did have to buy some lumber. We are close to finishing it for winter – I just put kilz on the inside OSB board to help protect it a little more from the elements, we need to get some dirt to fix some drainage issues, and then I need to paint the outside metal. Kits ran $2000 and more. He built this for less than $500! Yay, I love this guy!

And we made sure there were no spiny things on the lean-to. I double-inspected it. No wrinkles either. LOL

By: Katey

Katey — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:52:33 +0000

Very funny, gotta watch those spiny things. Don’t think it is covered under Workmans Comp.

Picture turned out nice Penny. Especially funny that it is “Asian Plum”.

By: basicliving

basicliving — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:48:29 +0000

SVB – It’s funny. Bernie was a computer guy in his past life. When we moved to the homestead, he began building things he never thought he could build. Even now, I tell him what a wonderful job he does, and he poo-poos it. I agree with you and think he is very talented. And it just thrills me that he will tackle just about anything and do a great job at it.

Kim – I really need to get the pictures taken of all the different products, but yes, the ingredients are listed below each soap’s description – just click the “More Details” link.

By: the inadvertent farmer

the inadvertent farmer — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:16:59 +0000

ROFL…that English translation is horrible!

I love to watch men and power tool…BIG power tools in this case. Great, great job on the nest boxes, handy men who love their wives are simply the best! Kim

BTW, went and looked at your soaps, do you have ingredients anywhere?

By: Sweet Virginia Breeze

Sweet Virginia Breeze — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:01:24 +0000

You are so lucky to have a talented man. His sawmill is interesting looking.

How true that is about instructions – although I don’t believe I’ve ever seen any that bad. Congratulations on getting it put together without “falling down the light”.

By: basicliving

basicliving — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:35:44 +0000

Danni – YAY for men who love their wives and the never ending coop job!!!! Oh, and it was Vietnamese. You were using a translator???? *snort*

By: Farmgirl_dk

Farmgirl_dk — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:01:29 +0000

Ah….I *love* men who LOVE their wives! You’re a good man, Bernie! My Jim is outside right this moment, on top of the chicken run, extending the rain roof for my babies…just to make his wife happy. That’s a wonderful looking nest box! Curtains? snort. I like my privacy, too.

Those instructions *cracked* me up. They must use the same translator as the one we used the other day when we were trying to speak Korean (or was it Vietnamese?) to each other.