Activities

Yard work and play

by liilingon

Unlike the paid yard work the kids do for Ivan down the street, they are kind enough to voluntarily work on our own backyard. A lot gets done when you have a team of 5 working together!

Pruning and pollinating the apple tree. This apple tree has four different types of apples. While there’s lots of blooms, we’re still waiting for a harvest of more than one apple a year. 🤨
Felix’s turn to mow the back lawn. The kids rotate through the jobs that use the tools: mower, hedge trimmer, and weed whacker. It’s all about getting to use the tools 🙂
Wearing required protection when using tools.
Some parts of it look like he’s either licking his chops or sticking his tongue out at us 😆

The work is interspersed with lots of play time.

  • Trying to start a fire with a magnifying glass.
  • Trying out our new badminton net.
Nolan had made the “basketball net” a while back, but decided that he wanted a backboard. He found the piece of trellis and posts from the front porch destined for the dump and put them to use. Recycle and reuse.
It gets a lot of use by the boys.
Pruning the Japanese maple. Lara enjoys pruning.
Using up some excess stone and preventing weed growth. Lots of bugs in this area of the backyard (I’ve already got a bite under my eye).
The back hedge was the one Nolan was pruning that lead to a visit to the Emergency Department and 5 stitches.

The next day, he was out planting some butterfly and bee-friendly plants we received from a friend, and trimming the back hedge.

Wild strawberries under the apple tree (probably to be eaten by the rabbits that visit our yard every morning).
Lara and Felix planted the forget-me-nots in a pot we picked up from a house down the street last year.

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