Doesn't that just tickle your fancy?

Well, I've accepted the fact that we're not building a new chicken coop, but that's still not stopping me from redecorating the old one. I put down some new bark chips for the floor after I weeded and cleaned up the ground first. Trees had begun to grow in there! That's how neglectful we'd been. But after only a couple hours I had redone the entire pens groundwork. I left a few of the growing trees alone though. Why? Because it's almost beautiful. It gives the chickens a place to get some shade and plant life for when they don't get to go out for any reason. That was yesterday, but today I scraped out all of the old poop and pine needles from the laying house and now it's spic and span. No more pine needles. I think I'll have to sacrifice some babysitting money from my savings and purchase some sod or shavings to put in there.