{"id":1548,"date":"2014-03-23T18:32:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T18:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2014-03-23T18:32:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T18:32:29","slug":"spring-chickens-maybe-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"Spring Chickens? Maybe Summer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chicken house is taking shape.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Elmo working on the chicken house\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PICT0192.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today we got the post in the ground and framed the floor, triangulated the whole gubbins and nailed down some floorboards.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"chicken house floor\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PICT0187.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;ll get as far as I can on the walls and see if I can get them up. Haven&#8217;t really got a plan for the roof yet&#8230; slapdash as usual. But we&#8217;ve got a plan for where to put the run and all we need to do then is source some chickens.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1549\" alt=\"tulips\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PICT0185.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PICT0185.jpg 640w, https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PICT0185-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spring is occasionally making steps toward appearing, though it&#8217;s still cold (frost forecast tonight) and raining a lot. Still, the flowers are out. I&#8217;m told we&#8217;re better off here than in Vermont where there are still two feet of snow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1550\" alt=\"daffodils in the woods\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PICT0186.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PICT0186.jpg 640w, https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PICT0186-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chicken house is taking shape. Today we got the post in the ground and framed the floor, triangulated the whole gubbins and nailed down some floorboards. Tomorrow I&#8217;ll get as far as I can on the walls and see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=1548\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}