And last night, when Wonderful Husband was going to bed, he found that Jazzy's bedroom light was on, his gate open, and his bed empty. A full-house search ensued. Eventually Jazzy was found tucked into Squiddle's bed beside his brother, fast asleep. So sweet! But knowing that Squiddle would likely kick up a huge fuss about his brother being in his bed, I picked up Jazzy and tucked him back into his own bed without waking either of them.
In a less-cute mien: Jazzy has taken to pulling a chair from the dining room into the kitchen and using it to reach/climb up onto the counters. Wonderful Husband has installed a magnetic latch on the corner cupboard and we have moved the knife block, all other sharp objects, and all the vitamins and daily meds up there. Because cute as he is and much as I love him, the three-year-old is decidedly not to be trusted around any of those things.
In project news, we finally began work on the chicken tractor today! Transforming it from a set of 2-D drawings to a 3-D structure is going to be both fun and interesting. Time to see if we can do this as well as we hope!
We started by assembling the 8' x 4' base, and roughly laying out a side to make sure it was what we wanted:
We've opted to give the total structure an extra foot of height from my initial sketches. The side poles were initially to be 4' high. Here, they're 5'. The two crossbars will be part of the supports for the coop. Everything is attached using a nail gun and some wood glue to fill in any gap space. The bits of wood underneath the corners are just to keep any drips of the glue from attaching the structure to the floor as it dries.
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