The Chicken Coop is No More!

I'm happy to report that I've finished tearing down the chicken coop and breaking down the rotten lumber and other debris. All told, it took me several Saturdays and a few hours during the weeknights over the last month to break down the larger pieces, remove all the nails from all the boards, separate the roofing shingles from the lumber, and spray termite and ant colonies that were eating the coop from the inside out.

Here's the freshly cleared site with the stack of lumber that I still have to dispose of:

This is the view of the cleared area looking into the woods. We're working with a landscaper to have them clear the leaves back to the line of larger trees as well as nuke the poison ivy.

Here's the long view of the area that I've cleared. The Chicken coop stood in the bare brown area on the right of the foreground. After the landscaper clears the leaves and nukes the poison ivy, we'll probably tear down the picket fence and put in some natural divider between the grass and the wooded area. We're considering planting wildflowers in the area below the trees rather than planting more grass, covering the area with bark mulch, or spending a lot of time and energy to create a complex garden area.