This weekend...

So, this weekend our neighbor fell 4 trees in the backyard that were looking like they were going to fall anyway.  A few years back another one of the backyard neighbors had an unwatched fire that had never gone out and it ended up rekindling and catching our entire backyard, 2/3 of our property on fire and burning it all up.  The trees are burnt about 4 to 5 ft up their trunks.  The fire had burnt down all of the scotch bloom which we saw as a blessing but it killed a bunch of the trees.  So, the 4 in the back corner were timbered this weekend.   It looks so bare in the back corner now.
I wonder what Paul has in store for the wood. :o)

A New Day

So, I have been having a crazy week.
I am not sure what is going on with me but according to the med sights on the web, I may be starting to have some perimenopause symptoms.  Yeah, I know one would think that I am too young to start...but I don't know how to explain what else would be wrong with me.  Not that something is wrong per say, but I am not feeling normal if that makes more sense.

Anywho, we still haven't decided where the garden boxes are going to go, so hopefully we will figure that out today.

Childcare kids here...need to write more later.

So kids are fed and getting dressed and playing.
I am now going to start my day....I'll be back.

Starting with where you're at~

Today we are starting with where we are at.  We don't have a huge piece of property but it is an acre, which is more than most it seems.  I can envision the property being a small working farm.  I see privacy fencing, a garden area, a compost area, an orchard (very small), an area for raspberries and some sort of playhouse structure, built by the kids.

I see a feeling of coziness, a welcoming when you enter into the backyard.  Our own personal haven, zen, garden of eden, only known about once you step outside the backdoor.  A place for children to run and explore and grown children to having a calming stroll.

It is all starting with garden boxes.  Paul and the kids built them last week and have been letting the wood dry so that they could paint them.  Well, now they have been painted and are ready to be placed.  But where?  I want them to have a good location in regard to the sun but am concerned about them not getting enough shade?  Is that a realistic thought.  Do they really need shade?  I don't think the neighbors garden had shade and if I truly start thinking about it farms, back in the day, were in huge open fields with no shade.  So, I am going to leave the concern behind me and just figure out a good location.

Then the filling of the dirt and surrounding with the fence to protect them from the neighbors chickens that like to wander in our yard and go through the compost and eat cat food.