The View From Here

I've posted two other The View From Here posts...if you'd like to check them out click here and here. Both of my previous posts were taken from my front yard, but since we've been working the backyard I thought I'd show you a different view of that instead.

I was sitting on an old wood ladder that we have leaning up against a tree. Here is Owen over by the easement pushing his wheelbarrow and watching an airplane go buy.

This time around the planes were landing and not taking off over our house.

Here is a picture of our neighbors deck. Owen is the little red dot in the picture. He was yelling, "Vondo" when I was taking the picture. Our neighbors name is Vonda and she gave Owen a cookie the other night and now he thinks she should give him one every night.

Here is a picture of our other neighbors backyard. Survey (I'm not sure if that's how you spell his name, but that's how it sounds) built his deck himself. See the tall plants by the back of his house...yeah that's how peas are supposed to look.


Here's our deck with 17 or so stairs down to the backyard. The part under the deck is where we store our firewood.


As you can see all of our houses are really tall in the back. That door is actually to our "crawlspace". It's about 17 feet high so it's funny to call it that, but that's what it was listed as when we signed the papers to the house. It's unfinished right now so it's just used as storage. Our hope is to one day remodel it and put a kitchenette, a bathroom and a schoolroom down there. Since I'm going to home school the boys it would be great to have a separate space to do school. Also the swing set will be in the backyard so it will be perfect for recess.