The Chicken Upgrade

It is well beyond time to take care of the outside of our house. We have had a pretty thorough inside makeover of the house and now we are branching out. We are really looking forward to paving a patio of sorts, but that falls in the over $1000 projects and currently our budget can only allow for projects in the $100's. So we opted to make over the chicken area.
Here she is before, electric netting reminiscent of the days when we had 60 broilers in the field and first starting raising birds, back in the good ol grad school days. Oh, how I was so sick of that netting. We were lucky to have additional man power in town and Zak and Ben got to work digging the post holes (after going out for a 4 hour manly shopping trip- oh the gossip!). Seven post holes later, that auger goes through the earth like butter. The kids were cool with the project, R spent time looking up at the trees via his wagon. While A attempted to help.
Until he got bored and decided picking all of our ripe raspberries would be more fun and more delicious. Poles set (alternate soil and pea gravel), mama got to work with the new tool for the project (all new projects, require the acquisition of a new tool) a sharp chisel. We weren't slacking and making an unfancy fence, no our rails were meant to be sunk.
Those are some pretty fine notches. I am a good wood worker and look forward to other projects with my new tool.