On eggs and greenhouses and injuries

Five eggs. It makes no sense. This fall and winter we have been losing chickens to raccoons. We have 2 laying hens left. The best we can hope for is 2 eggs about 4 days a week. We don't know what kind of chickens these are because we usually get Barred Rocks but these came with the farm. However, we aren't ones to look a gift chicken in the mouth. But today we had 5 eggs. Can it be that 3 of our pullets came of age all on the same day and laid in the same spot? Yesterday afternoon I found that there were 2 eggs on the ground in the goats' shed. One was broken, so I left that for the chickens to eat. They are greedy cannibals. I took the good egg for us. The current preferred spot to lay is in the goat's hay feeder. This is a lean-to inside their shed that will hold about a half square bale. There are two sides to the feeder, but the chickens would never lay in the far feeder. Only in the one nearest the door. We'll check to see if any of these eggs have double yolks. Sometimes new layers will have multi-yolk eggs. We'll have to keep an eye on this.

The greenhouse project is coming along slowly. We are converting an old livestock shed into a greenhouse. It's in a half-acre field that we will use for our vegetable garden in the spring. I took off all the tin panels and replaced them with clear plastic ones. The shed had a cattle gate in front, but I took that off and framed a wall and a wide door. Then I attached more plastic panels to each side of the door. I'm in the process of tightening up the structure now. Can't have any precious heat escaping! Yesterday I was nailing short lengths of 2x4's into the corners to seal them. I cut all the pieces at once and just set them in where they were going to go. Once they were all cut I began nailing them in. After whacking on one for a while I was clobbered by a piece of 2x4 that fell from the top of the greenhouse. It hit me in the face next to my eye. A bad spot. (see photo above) There's no permanent injury but it sure was painful I got a little more work done on the greenhouse yesterday afternoon. It rained last night and I had left my cordless Makita drill out in the rain. Luckily, it still works at this point. Hopefully it will survive as I use that tool all the time.