Alright, I wanted to extend this discussion beyond the Cultural Appropriation thread and I feel there's enough of us with an idea of what we want (or possibly already have) to have a decent discussion about it.
If you could have your dream yard, what would you do with it? I have a decent sized yard now and the planning has begun. It's prolly gonna take a good 5 years or so before I can do everything I want with it, but that's alright because I know I can do it now.
I've been researching native plant species to put in the gardens. I've especially excited about putting in a pond with some native plants and fish. But I also plan on having a fire pit, bug house, natural and traditional (including a sunken trampoline, google it, it's awesomesauce) play areas for my daughter, a labyrinth and possibly another circle type area and a deck.
With the bug house, I know it will give a place for all sorts of critters to live. They're pretty awesome.
And I have every intention of telling my daughter to go walk the labyrinth when she's old enough and needs to go calm down. So it'll have some practical use as well as lighting it up at Samhain for folks to come walk it then.
When it comes to natural play areas I'm thinking about a small mud pit, some log stepping stones and balance beams, that sort of thing. I've been roving the natural playground sites for ideas. We don't have any hills in our yard so that eliminates that sort of thing, but otherwise, I'm into it.
This is my plan. It's not very well proportioned to my actual yard, it was more a sit down and brainstorm thing. But it's a guide to what I'll be doing in the future.
If you could have your dream yard, what would you do with it? I have a decent sized yard now and the planning has begun. It's prolly gonna take a good 5 years or so before I can do everything I want with it, but that's alright because I know I can do it now.
I've been researching native plant species to put in the gardens. I've especially excited about putting in a pond with some native plants and fish. But I also plan on having a fire pit, bug house, natural and traditional (including a sunken trampoline, google it, it's awesomesauce) play areas for my daughter, a labyrinth and possibly another circle type area and a deck.
With the bug house, I know it will give a place for all sorts of critters to live. They're pretty awesome.
And I have every intention of telling my daughter to go walk the labyrinth when she's old enough and needs to go calm down. So it'll have some practical use as well as lighting it up at Samhain for folks to come walk it then.
When it comes to natural play areas I'm thinking about a small mud pit, some log stepping stones and balance beams, that sort of thing. I've been roving the natural playground sites for ideas. We don't have any hills in our yard so that eliminates that sort of thing, but otherwise, I'm into it.
This is my plan. It's not very well proportioned to my actual yard, it was more a sit down and brainstorm thing. But it's a guide to what I'll be doing in the future.
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Hopefully I'll be able to develop a skillset long-term that will allow me to work comfortably from home. But... we aren't quite there yet.
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