The Price for Cuteness

OK, so along with this goal of a chicken coop and the chicks to inhabit it, we also decided to try to build the whole thing out of 50% recycled material... because we don't like to make things easy on ourselves. I might have mentioned that in an earlier post but can't completely remember. Anyway, it seems as though this may actually be much harder than we thought. People seem to place a monetary value on sentiment or emotions or whatever, because they are sure charging a lot for USED crap. I mean, don't get me wrong, I am willing to pay you for your stuff, but how much? Really?

Not to clump everybody we have interacted with into one type, there have been some very generous people out there who are even giving their stuff to us for free. We are very grateful. We are very blessed, and relieved that we won't go broke trying to lay a few eggs.

Something else that didn't make it into consideration would be just how hard it would be to build with recycled material and still meet the "cute" factor. A cute factor purely set by Kate. If Jeff had his way the thing would be an overbuilt cardboard box, all in good jest. I hesitate to show you a picture of what we are going to do, because it is obviously made of new material and ours will, more likely than not, have a considerably lower "cute" factor.

So, if you know anyone who wants to get rid of some materials please let us know. I feel like I am kicking a dead horse with this, but the squeaky wheel gets the oil.

On an adorable note, we have asked Bren and Isaac what they wanted to name their chickens. We received the names "Hannah" by Bren and "Meat" by Ikee. Couldn't help but to chuckle.