My Backyard

Everyone is gone this evening. Out with friends or out of town. I'm getting to sit in my backyard and just enjoy. I love my backyard. When we first moved into this house, the yard was what we bought...the house just came with it. By today's city standards we have a huge yard - between a fourth and a third of an acre. It has evolved over the years. We started with a deck and riding toys for JB. Then John built the world's coolest fort with the wood we got from taking the deck apart. (I was afraid the girls would fall and bust their heads open since it was raised.) We poured a patio and put in the kids foot and hand prints. For years it was the best place to roller skate. Even my best cat ever's footprints were fossilized there. Later we added a swing set, a soccer goal, a trampoline, and a wooden pirate ship. We've had chickens for years who talk in soothing voices if you sit near them. A clothes line is strung among the trees (we started with over 60, but have had to take a few out over the years). A screened in covered patio has been added, and a few years ago we put the pool in. This yard has grown with my children. And through it all - from the days when JB would put a blanket on the deck for me to lie on while he played because I was on bedrest to now with teenage parties, it has been the best backyard anyone could have...I'm very blessed to have a little piece of heaven right here. Life doesn't get much better.