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+ADOBE MOMMA NEWS: COOP WINDOWS (AND A FEW FLOWERS)

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I have been able to count on my memory returning for each adobe coop building step I have taken.  I had an amazing woman as a mentor when I lived in Taos, New Mexico over 15 years ago who taught me how to build with the mud.  Here I am, however, having grown this little coop just about up to its roof line and I am finding I have no memory clue whatsoever about how to put that roof on there so it won’t blow off in one of our frequent strong, gusty, fitful and naughty-nasty wind storms!

Today the window frames went in, covered with wire and placed behind bars that I thought might help keep out marauding animals intent on a chicken feast.  Not sure that idea will work out, but at least the bars add some structural strength into this little piece of mud work!

From the east.... Now up go the wood pieces over the openings
From the west....with what I hope are nearing the last of needed adobe blocks -- I am running out of dirt! They are drying on the cement slab where that old shed once stood. Of course I will have to go back and straighten walls by adding mud - NOT one for a plumb line - no way this thing's gonna fall down!
Good ole Mexican border fences...
First of the front yellow rose blooms - along with the flowers that made it through that 2-below cold snap to resurrect and bloom!
For now, happy 40 tomato plants. Not sure if the frozen-dead-rotting cactus I buried in my garden spots will be decomposed enough -- in time to plant! "Rot, cactus, ROT!"

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