For 3 years, we have felt pretty lonely on our block. At our lowest point, there were only 3 houses out of 9 that were occupied. We then had great neighbors move in next to us only to have them lose their house about a year later. You can only imagine how thrilled we were when our goods friends the "monks" moved into the house next to us. They go to our church and have been involved in South Atlanta for almost as long as Katie and I have been. We are excited to have them as neighbors!
Some things we are doing intentional with them, including our back yard. They have a dog and we have two kids. So we decided that fencing in the yard would be a good idea. We have had it for a week and we love it! It is so nice to let the kids be outside without worrying about them. In fact, Sam is in quiet time at this very moment outside! These are some pictures of our new fence:
In order for the fence to go in, we needed to take a tree down that was rotting from the bottom up. In the second picture below you can see the hole that was in the middle of the stump. Taking the tree down was kind of bitter sweet. It was a great old tree that provided wonderful shade, but we were nervous since the tree hung over Sam and Maya's room. We are glad that it is down and we no longer need to worry about it falling. We do have a bit of a mess to clean up though!
Finally, we now have a great place to put a clothes line up in our back yard! I have been wanting to do this for a while to cut down on energy expenses. Today is the first day that we have been able to use it. Sam and Maya were a bit confused about it at first, then they though it was silly, then they enjoyed helping Daddy hang the clothes on the line.
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