First off, I could not have wished for better chickens. They are incredibly obedient, tamed, calm, and beautiful. Yesterday they laid 7 eggs and today they laid 6 eggs. 13 EGGS in 2 DAYS! We let them out of the coop for the first time today to see how they act as free range chickens. Wow! What a success! They did not go further than 15 square feet from their pen. They seemed to adapt really easily and are very friendly with people. 
There is an old truck next to their pen and they found it very cool and comfortable under their. Most of them spent their time in the pen eating or underneath the car scavenging. Towards the end of the day, Sylvia brought out watermelon and we fed the compost to the chickens. They went crazy eating the watermelon! It was such an exciting sight seeing the chickens really being one with the land and doing exactly what we hoped they would.So yesterday I said today was tent building day! This is our platform tent:
Well, the wood for it at least. Obviously, we have a lot more work to do tomorrow. After a couple of panic attacks,break downs, discussions about miscommunication, and replanning we began removing the nails, screws, metal posts, and staples in the 44 planks. The problem was that Orlando had originally thought the tent was only going to stay up only for August. Sylvia and I had planned to make a permanent structure. He had a completely different blueprint for the deck. Sylvia was going by the blueprint from the tent, which the completely had sent the wrong one, but got a lot less wood in a bigger size so it would be more inexpensive and it was also reused. Once t
his was all said we realized we would have to start from scratch and re-plan the deck with the wood we had.But by this time it was late in the day and all we could do was prep the wood for tomorrow by cleaning it. Orlando, Tom, and Kevin had been working on that all along, but now after Sylvia and I working out the differences we set to help them out. Orlando has been the master of this entire project so far, therefore I was very embarrassed to have asked him to take off work today when we didn't get as much accomplished as we had hoped. Luckily, Sylvia's mom and him worked out an agreement with my translation so that he could help us tomorrow for the last time. The tent will be up tomorrow, it has to be. P.S. I need to get Orlando something for EVERYTHING because he really has done everything.
I checked on the solar panel charger I ordered. Turns out it takes 12 to 14 business days to get here. I did not planned on it taking that long, but I guess I will just have to make do until it gets here.
Sylvia got 25 pounds of almonds and quinoa to help us out throughout the times. This is going to really be useful to beef up or diets and help us not get light headed.
RAIN BARRELS ARE COMING!Tomorrow or Saturday I am going to make a couple rain barrels for the livestock and hopefully ourselves. A couple other things we need to to is set up a laundry line, a fire place, a storage, some type of kitchen area, and of course install ourselves.
Drossel e-mailed me today about getting involved in a project helping raise oysters as part of a seeding program with Cornell Co-op and Ducks Unlimited. He also said he was going to try to help us find a goat. What a lifesaver. The oyster project sounds like a lot of fun and I hope that comes through because I would love to help out.
Sylvia talked to me about fishing and soon biking over to Ken's fishing shop to get that going. Also, Sylvia mentioned collecting earthworms and creating our own compost. This would be very useful for the garden, the animals, the land, everything.
Today I got a really good look at what really is in the vegetable garden.
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