On the trailer.

One of the nice things about the location of this current house sit is our closeness to our family. Most of them live within 45 minutes’ drive and from time to time we have the grandchildren over for the day to play and sometimes they stay the night.

One of the best things from their point of view is the space to run around. Peter has been busy cleaning up the back part of the block, whipper snipping all the long grass, tidying up some of the rocks and logs up there, and the girls were up there the other day helping him out. He cut down another small tree that had died, more firewood for the winter, so they were up there helping him load it into the little trailer behind the ride on mower. As a reward for their efforts they got a ride on the trailer.

 

Up the back he also found some nasty looking plant with these big thorns.

Riding in the trailer

Around the house too.

Down the drive and around the front lawn.

 

Time to get out.

  Now that they are getting older they are also getting better at some things. They have been learning to skip, especially inside a big rope. They kept landing in the wrong place so Peter needed to make a line on the concrete where they should stay.

Practicing the art of skipping with a big rope

Easier to stay in the right place with the line on the ground.

 

So many children these days miss out on this sort of experience, town living has taken away so much that we used to have when we were young.