Kennels finally!

Well I finally got my new kennels. I had a couple I bought from Lowes a couple years ago but they rusted out on the frames and the door fell off of one. We had to jury rig it so I could continue using that kennel. The frames are rusted through all over the bottoms though so I needed to get new kennels for my house. I ordered from TSC and finally picked them up yesterday. What a fiasco. I know the manager there, as he is a sheep person and he's invited me out to work his sheep. Of course he wasn't there yesterday and I did not have my receipt for the kennels. I had ordered them over 3 weeks ago and never thought about the receipt. After we got over the receipt thing, then they had to see if they even had the 3 kennels still. Well they did, and then we had to figure out how to get them on my trailer. I had brought our little 4' x8' lawn mower trailer. They wanted to just use the forklift and put them on metal shipping frame and all. I wouldn't have minded keeping the shipping frame, but I did not want them upright on the little trailer. Finally I decided to just remove them from the shipping frame and just lay them flat on the trailer. They fit fine that way. I had to buy 4 tie downs and they never moved an inch. After they were all loaded the guy that was helping all of a sudden remembered me from when I bought some stock panels a few months ago. That also was a fiasco. He says he never remembers names but said he'd defiinitely remember me now..LOL  He thought I should give him one of the kennels. Nothing like having a reputation at TSC. Anyway, here are my new kennels. Not where they are going to stay permanently, but we set one up to keep the dogs in while we're there working on the house.

While we were taking the panels off the trailer and setting up the kennel, I had let the chickens out to peck around. Jenna noticed they were missing and I found them over on the golf course behind my house. They had gone through the part I hadn't fenced that only had barbwire.  I looked around and realized I only had the poodle and Ford the puppy. I HAD NO DOG  with me to help! I had to find a way back on the golf course without tramping through the poison ivy (which loves me to death) and then try and get those stupid birds to go back through the fence. I'll never go out without a dog to handle those things again.