Our Own Campground

When Hubs and I were married, I knew I was getting a camper. We basically spent our honeymoon at a Boy Scout Camp. That was my first clue that camping was going to be a part of our life.

How convenient for us that our new home came with its own campground.

We spent this last weekend cleaning up the area to get ready for a party we are having this coming weekend.

The shed on the left was a horse barn at one point, but it’s basically empty now. It’s now used as a serving area for gatherings.

Everything here was left by the owners. I love this guy.

Being on 12 acres that is mostly wood, it is good to have a burn area to deal with all the fallen limbs and wood that is always around.

We cleaned up the Adirondack chairs, but they’ll need a new coat of paint in the Spring.

There’s always something interesting to see out here. I’m sure these flowers are some sort of weed, but I love their pretty purple petals.

There was an old outhouse down here, but Hubs knocked it down and plans to rebuild it. He’ll make the new one a single seat. The old one was a double-seater. I can NOT ever imagine a situation in which I would want to share an outhouse experience with someone. Ever.

There is also a horseshoe pit. I raked the leaves out the way, but I’ll have to do it again on Saturday if anyone wants to play.

We also have a volleyball net. Which reminds me, we need to try to find the volleyball, although I think there are a couple around here.

See that stack of 2×6’s between the two trees? Also, look at the trees just to the left of the barn, near the center of the photo. I’ll come back to those trees in a minute, but first, Hubs had a plan for some of that treated lumber.

On Sunday, I took a nap and when I woke up, Hubs and the boys had built a picnic table. Since we had nearly all the hardware, it cost us about $6 for some bolts.

That man is awesome!

Okay, so those trees I pointed out? Here’s what we did with those.

This was a totally free project. The rope was in the shed. We sent Kiddo up a ridiculously tall ladder to get the rope up on the branches we wanted it. I couldn’t watch. It makes me sick to my stomach to see my people in precarious situations.

The seat was a scrap of treated wood. I asked Hubs to make the seat wide enough for me. While I am not THAT wide, I certainly appreciate the room. It was so fun to swing on this. It’s on a hill so you swing out over the down side of the hill and it feels like you’re flying.

Katie loves it, but she was a little nervous at first.

On Monday night, we took our dinner down to the campground to test out the new picnic bench.

Don’t let that exasperated look fool you. Kiddo loves me taking his picture! (That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.)

He’s growing so fast. He’s hovering somewhere between 6’1” and 6’2”. I’m convinced he’s passed Hubs up, but he’s not even 14 yet, and Hubs does not want to accept that Kiddo may be taller.

I can’t believe Buddy is 16 tomorrow! He was very interested in building up the fire. I asked him not to get carried away with the fire. This is his “Who Me? Get carried away with fire?” look. Note the lighter in his hand. He’s not that innocent.

Yeah. This isn’t carried away at ALL. He chucked that giant log onto the fire. I think it’s still smoldering down there.

We sang some campfire songs before we called it a night. It was a great weekend playing in our yard.

I’m sure we’ll have the scouts campout down here before the year is out. I told Hubs I want to turn this into a Glampground.

Wouldn’t one of these look great down here? It might just make me want to campout if I had this to sleep in.

Suesan