My neighbor friend came over this afternoon and helped me (more like I helped her as she is the wiz!) to get the tarp up over the wire shed I built previously. What I had found with the high winds we get around here is that even the thick plastic sheeting didn't stay on the wire, EVEN WITH GORILLA tape! So I found this place that sells used billboards, looked at the sizes and ordered one. Because it's a billboard, it has some thick plastic on one side, webbing on the other and on all sides there was a pocket. I put some thick pvc pipe through the pockets on both sides, which we wired to the fence. Because the bilboard is mostly white, it ought to be cool in the summer for when the *boys* go in to eat or get out of the sun.  Here's another pic of it, backs up to teh chicken house and the opening faces south Next week I'm going to get some vegetable plants to start at least a small garden-with wire around it to prevent the chickens, geese and ducks for having at it. Looks like it's going to thunderstorm tonight so that will be a good test of how it holds up with high winds.