Long shadows.

Don't you just love a sunny day when the sun is high and the shadows long? Here. two little things are made much larger with tall shadows leaking from their bodies. Shakira trundling towards me is always a delight to see with her tail looking like a tight bun. The butterfly pitched on the fence to warm it's wings possibly? I like the crisp edges of it's shadow,  almost making a new butterfly.

Before pictures.

This is how the corner by the shed looked before today.
I have now moved it all so we can take down the old fence and erect a new, bigger and sturdier one. As always, there is more mess before things get tidy - we live in a constant state of flux; once one part is tidied we have to move onto something else. Hopefully by next weekend we will have a lovely fence and maybe even (though it's doubtful) the other hen house built. As for the area where Lola's run will be, I've dug over the ground and weeded it completely. It need a good amount of sand adding to the soil so that it doesn't get too compact and wet.

The hen house is cleaned up and will need to have some attention to faulty woodwork before putting securely together again. I got the dirty job of cleaning the gunk off it all but Luke gets the difficult job of putting it all together again. Good luck with that!

Until then poor Lola has to reside in the greenhouse and her nesting box is, as you can see, an old cardboard box with sawdust in it. Lola's tail is the only thing visible once she has settled down to lay her daily egg. With that flash of black her tail reminds me of a dorsal fin. I shan't be worried though. Fortunately hens don't have teeth!

Bird baths.

Chickens are such fun. I laugh when I look at Buck Bucky's stance here, legs apart, fluffy bottom. She's a nice little chicken.

At the same time, the other two fluffed up their feathers and bathed in a hole of dusty.

Whilst the girls were in the greenhouse a little sparrow hopped into their run and helped itself to their food.