Isn't life great?

Today was a good day. Yesterday was a good day as well. I suppose every day is good, but these days were really very good and I wanted to write about them and hopefully inspire someone. I'll mostly be talking about yesterday.

So I started off the day yesterday not like I would have liked. I woke up late and it was all dark and rainy outside. But luckily that didn't dampen my spirits because I had something to look forward too; cleaning the chicken coop! Now you might be thinking "Hey Mary, did you just say you're looking forward to cleaning the chicken coop? thats not even fun" and my reply to that is "I did just say that and are you kidding me, it's one of my favorite past times." A different thought you could be having is "Wow, that sounds like so much fun!" (not sarcastically) to which I would reply "I know right! isn't cleaning the best?!" Anyways back to my day.
I got up and got dressed in my absolute favorite outfit, jeans and a flannel shirt. Stylish, comfy and good for working. I headed downstairs and got sidetracked eating and playing guitar and piano, and proceeded to go outside and start organizing our shed... but then I reminded myself of the chickens so by 1:00pm I was out accessing the situation.
The rain was coming down hard and I took one look at the muddy chicken run and decided that cleaning the coop could wait; my girls should not be walking in such mud. I threw off my coat (I was going to get soaked eventually) and proceeded with my plan of a makeshift "roof" over the run. I plan to build a more permanent one when spring rolls around.

The girls in their nice dryish run. 

I had to prop up a whole bunch of support beams under the tarp to keep the water from pooling up. Again. That happened today. The whole roof was about to cave in and one of the walls of the run would have snapped if I hadn't done something quick. Now back to yesterday...

It could be compared to a really ugly circus tent, but I like to think of it as a giant fort.

I constructed this roof with the help of one of my brothers, and by the time we were done both of us were quite wet. Me even more so as I had been outside longer.

Now for some reason I got distracted inside, eating food and drawing a rabbit....

Isn't she cute? As you can see, her name is the Fluffy Happy Velveteen Bunny of Life. I finally got "un-distracted" and headed out to clean the coop, even though it was almost dark out and still raining. After a ton of shoveling, scraping, sweeping and sweating (the four s's that describe chicken care perfectly) I finally finished cleaning the coop. That thing was Dirty with a capital D. Here are some pics of the end product. Sorry about the terrible lighting btw :P

The girls decided they like laying in this corner the best, so I decided to work with it and move the nest boxes back there.

The aftermath of my beautiful outfit... It was even dirtier than it looks. 

I came inside and was about to watch a hard earned show on Netflix, when the power went out. For three hours. Now I don't want to sound like I depend on electricity for everything but I was really looking forward to watching a show and the Wifi goes out with the power. Looking for a different source of entertainment, I picked up a book. My brain didn't have enough brainpower to read a book... I tried anyway and made it through two chapters of The Phantom of the Opera. Great book. 

I headed downstairs to see what the rest of the family was up to and heard a song in the distance "In sleep he sang to me, in dreams he came..." so naturally I made a dramatic entrance on the stairs and assumed the role of Christine Daae, lip synching of course.

When dinner was ready I sat down at the table and looked around.

In my head I was pretending I was in Little House on the Prairie, with an oil lamp lit and plenty of candles burning, after a long day on the homestead... I want that someday... when suddenly the power came back on! Yay! Netflix time.

I finished this awesome day by watching an episode of my all time favorite show, Once Upon A Time.

Today I got a ton more done as well and took some fabulous selfies with my peeps. This is the best one.

That is Ruthie on my shoulder. I did have to put her there this time but she normally jumps up by herself.

These are my other favorite pics from today. I spent a good amount of time chilling with the girls after organizing the shed some more.

So theres that.

I hope this post at least entertained you, if not inspired you.

Thank you for reading! 

Blow up your tv, move to the country, keep homesteading and stay farmy!