2005mar09. The goose coop now has a floor, and the framing has been joined together with those cheap little metal doo-dads that should cost negative fifteen cents for twenty. The ones with the holes. It’s a metal rectangle with holes. I’m working on the roof now, which is funny because I just went ahead and built up to the roof without “worrying” about the roof and as it turns out, that’s sort of what flat roof construction is all about. Leaving it for last, just sort of tacking it on (w/more metal doo-dads, but they’re shaped differently and thus cost even more). Sweet. The geese will have a nice three foot overhang in the front, so they can sit in the shade and read their John Cheever novels. I’d like to rig the front door of the coop so it “locks” automatically and the geese could “unlock” it, but I imagine trying to train them to pull a cord or such would entail a lot of frustration. Also loud honking.
