We have a pretty big backyard at our new house which is WONDERFUL. It's fenced which is nice as well. The fence has a door that leads back to a little hidden mini-forest that belongs to our property. We called the owner & asked about it & he said that it is part of the property, but nobody ever goes back there because it's overgrown & gross. I asked if we could clean it up & he got really excited.
So . . . we cleaned it up. We removed the branches & leaves, killed the weeds (TONS of poison oak & poor Trek was covered in it for 2 weeks), & did some bug prevention stuff. Talk about some crazy bugs here. We found a spider that spit poison (Trek got that one too & his hand burned for 2 days), an orange catapillar with spikes, removed a beehive (Trek got stung in the back), & killed a bunch of ticks, fire ants, carpenter ants, & who knows what else. Poor Trek got attacked by everything. He's my superman.
Then we dug a path down the slope (the whole thing is sloped to the main road) & put in stones to make a staircase down to the bottom trees. We are hanging 2 hammocks down there in the trees since it's beautiful & shaded so I can read outside whenever I feel like it.
Next, Trek built a stone platform & attached a rope to the big tree in the back to make a rope swing for the kids. They LOVE that swing. They get on the platform, grab the rope, & jump. It goes SO high. They can't get enough of it.
We still need to tame the other half (it's a HUGE area), but the fun half is done & the kids are enjoying it so far. We're pretty proud of it.
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