The Outbuildings

As with most home places in the South, we have a few buildings on our land that serve several purposes. All of them were built by DH, but we had help from family, too. 

Over 10 years ago, I decided I wanted a small flock of chickens. There is nothing on this earth that beats farm fresh eggs, especially for baking. So DH set about building a chicken coop to house them in. He made it out of rough cut oak. We added a run, a place where the chicken could go outside, to it a few years later. It now looks like it has always been there. 

The chicken coop with the run on the side and a flower bed in the front.

On the back of our old mobile home, my daddy helped DH build a laundry room on the back. When we moved into our new home, we took that laundry room and combined it with a shed we already had to make a bigger building. The laundry room part is now my garden/storage shed. It is also where our kitties spend the night and rainy days. The old shed is where we house the yard equipment and is a place where DH can work on projects. 

My garden /storage shed is on the left. The equipment/project building part is on the right.

When we bought our pop-up camper, DH built a shed to park it in to keep it out of the weather. He built a high shelf in the back to store things on and it has turned out to be a great place to store wood for our fire pit. Our black lad also uses it as a cool spot to lay in the summer. (It needs a little freshening up and is on our list of things to do.)

The camper/wood shed.

  

The next building is our smallest one. It is our black lab's doghouse. It was once the well house for my parents church. It is insulated and big enough to provide plenty of room for our black lad to move around in and sleep. 

The dog house. One of our kitties decided to photo bomb the picture.

I love the homey, lived in feel our out buildings add to our simple homeplace. I simply love livin' our rural, southern life!