Spring and summer bring time for outdoor work. This year, in addition to spending my creative energies on playing building games, I’m doing some real building. I have 16 cats of various ages and mixed genders in an old 1980s one bedroom mobile home. There is an add-on porch in the front. My plan is to add a smaller porch and a fenced enclosure on the back.

The first materials are purchased, and I just finished cutting the first piece of protective skirting — to keep puppies, kitties, and wildlife from going under the trailer.

I’m not a professional builder. I have some basic tools. I am doing as country folk have always done: I’m making do with what I have.