A day spent outside

Today was one of those beautiful though somewhat rare days that are both the perfect temperature (high sixties, in my open) and sunny and fall on a weekend with nothing on the calendar. We did quite a bit of cleaning up outside, but some time was also spent working on the tree house. 

Floor boards are getting installed, so I sent L. up with my camera to the some pictures. 

The ones of J. and L. working on it I could manage myself.

Here is a better picture of how high up it is.

I sat for a while and watched. It was a perfect day just to sit outside and enjoy spring. I had a pretty nice view. It almost felt as though I could almost see the trees leading out.

I'll admit I still pinch myself that this is where we live. I get the same feeling when we're working outside that I had when I was little and would build the outline of cinder block houses in my backyard pretending that was my house. It feels like play. That's not a bad place to be.

I did do some gardening. I got the long flowerbed that runs along the length of the house cleaned out. I even started to put down mulch. This was a step I skipped last year and I regretted it all summer. 

This is the very small part that's all done. It was only three bags of mulch because I wanted to be sure I was happy to it before getting a lot. And I'm going to need a lot.

Those three bags only covered a very small amount of the smallest section of garden. The garden is at least sixty feet long. We'll probably have to do the mulch in sections instead of investing in that much all at once.