Hello there Carol!
Apologise for the slow response here. Have been very focused on the chicken house since writing this post. Almost done now and the chickens will be arriving next week :)
The wooden chicken 'chalet' will be arriving in a few days and yes indeed, i could have built it. And it would have been so cool! But having now spent two weeks on the chicken mission my feeling is that saving the time is more important. I barely have time to open this website at the moment and have so many posts i would like to write...
Thanks for the wand update. I must admit that no matter how much i practiced it never felt comfortable holding them at night. I do hold them during meditations and sometimes out sungazing. This feels very good. Even Esteban held them for 20mins the other day when he was feeling sick and this seemed to make him feel better. Nothing much more to report than that really. Can i say that great things continue to happen in my life? Certainly. But can i say it has anything to do with the wands? Not really. I would have been interested to try out the original Russian wands, just to make a comparison.
By the way, i rather like your idea of solar panels on the chicken house! This could create a little night light for them and perhaps protect the enclosure from predators who will be put off by the illumination. Let's see if i get round to that.