A productive date day

I took today off of work for a very important reason: Wifey secured us some baby sitting for The Bear so we could go pick up our new chicken coop!

Although we are decided to give chickening another shot, we aren't certain that it's going to be "our thing."  We decided to forgo our normal M.O. of building something bulletproof (and expensive) in favor of relatively disposable (and cheaper).  In this case, it meant a clearance 10 chicken (bantam) coop from Tractor Supply.  We'd ordered ahead and traveled to the nearest one that carried that model.  As you can see below, it's something we need to assemble ourselves.

While there, we picked up 2 Hazelnut starters for our "nut grove" and 2 more Purple Raspberry starters to go with the ones I planted a few years ago in the orchard.

On our way home, we stopped off at the southern location for our favorite farm market to see if they had any leftover fruit or nut trees.  Sure enough, they had some that were still living.  We also managed to get ourselves a $20 off price reduction from each of the almond trees we purchased.

Can't wait to get this stuff either assembled or in the ground (as appropriate)!