Exploring the Land of the Long White Cloud

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas! Here's a little video we've been working on. I must admit we would prefer to polish it a bit more but decided that we didn't want to keep you waiting too long. So enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9dURe2h27Q&feature=youtu.be After we did our gift giving this morning we went outside to put the final touches on the chicken coop (it needed a perch and we had to enclose one side of the run still) because our chookies have been lovingly cared for by our friends Gaz and Di for the last couple months and we head to their place for Christmas dinner tonight so will likely come home with chickens. This is going to be an interesting learning curve for us. But yes, I managed to get our Christmas letter sorted and sent out just in time for Christmas too. And we even watched Home Alone this year which we missed last year. We have some food to prepare but you are in our thoughts today and tomorrow as we celebrate and then you celebr

Ok, it's not where we are living but it's a new house for the chickens that will be the first animals we have owned together. We still need to put in a perch, and enclose one edge of the run but other than that we're ready for some chooks! Actually, we still need to figure out what to feed them and maybe get a water bottle for them too, so ok, not quite ready. Dustin designed and built it himself (mostly, I did help though!) I promise that you will see our house soon. We are working on a video and it's in post-production at the moment but you'll see it soon. We've started to rip apart the bedroom, literally. We pulled the wallpaper off and found that some of the gib was in poor condition or you could see the strands on the surface and it wouldn't have been a good finish. Since the time we would have paid for to have a plasterer skim coat the whole thing would have been nearly as much as new gib, we decided on new gib instead. So Dustin started ta