Camping Area

We needed to make an area for camping and a play area for the kids. Due to our slope issues we needed to level out an area and with all of the dreaded scrub oak we had to dig that all up. So, we decided to rent the small trackhoe from the local hardware store on a Saturday. I was up at the lot waiting with the kids for Kenyon to return. It seemed like it was taking forever!



Here's why---







The hardware store employee who hooked up the trailer forgot to check on the size of the ball. Luckily, there weren't other cars around at the time and no one was hurt. The truck got a little dented, but you'd never notice another dent in it. So, not to be dissuaded from his purpose, Kenyon got it reattached and headed back to work. It looked like fun, Kenyon tries to do a lot of work so I don't have to, but I think this was a time where he was having too much fun to let me anyway!





We needed two levels of flat area. The plan is to have a tent, a canopy with the picnic table, the airplane playset that came free with our swingset and a canopy for kids to play in. Because we have no shade and I am crazy because of the family proclivity for skin cancer, I was adamant about the canopies. They don't block everything, but at least it's something.





The community chipper came through the neighborhood a week earlier and we found some neighbors who weren't using all of their wood chips, so we got one truckload of their wood chips plus we have that huge mulch pile from last year. This is the first pad covered with mulch.




Here's the beginning of our compound. We still need to setup the play area (and the big picnic table), but at least we have a place for eating and the tent for naps for the kids.