Creating Comfort

My husband asked me this morning "How did you sleep last night honey?" I slept like a rock....we were both falling asleep on the couch last night after a long day of working in the backyard that started somewhere around 7:30 and didn't end until after 5:45 last night. My husband decided he wanted to redesign our back patio so we bought some new lights for our patio and an outdoor fan and found a great deal on a wicker patio furniture set plus a wicker love seat and some sturdy outdoor pillows. He got started right away with the lighting and fan installation because he knew it would probably take awhile. We bought an adorable house in a fairly quiet neighborhood that was built in the early 60's and it has been so much fun making it our home. Sure we could have gone the route of a newer more modern home but my husband has very anti-cookie cutter feelings when it comes to houses in a neighborhood and though our house is from a track of 4 or 5 different variations, every house is uniquely painted with uniquely matching rocks or stone accenting. We didn't want an HOA for the obvious reasons that my country heart would want a huge garden and some sort of farm type animals residing in the backyard, I don't want anyone telling me I can't have fresh eggs from a few squawking chickens in my own backyard. Fast forward 4 years and here we are finally getting to our backyard and making it a spot that we all can enjoy. I love my backyard, I have this awesome 50 ft raised flower bed with a cinder block wall that holds it all up, plenty of space still for the kids and dog to run around and behind the bedroom section is the other raised flower bed that Derek just built for me. Our patio needed the work we put into it yesterday, the chairs are comfortable and we enjoyed some quiet time sitting in the evening and watching the chicks settle on their roosting poles while the kids ran around playing in the grass with the dog, freshly transplanted herbs in new pots all lined up on the cinder block wall below my cherry tree and the setting sun...it was a perfect evening.

Last weekend we took a trip to the beach and along the way home I stopped and took a picture of what I call "Heaven"....I love a big green lush field of produce under misting water spouts and the sun setting, it was gorgeous and I captured a great picture of it. We all have places that we feel comfort in, places that give us the cozies and the season of fall especially gives me that extra bit of cozy feeling when I can sit somewhere pretty, enjoying a view or now my own backyard and sip a hot cup of tea and curl up with a good book or hold hands with my husband while we casually chat about stuff and laugh about things. It's nice to create a comfy space for yourself to enjoy and important to bring beauty into your life like that. I imagine places out in the country that have those amazing wrap around porches and the porch swing or a rocking chair, how comfy to have a space that you can be outside in and make you want to be outside to enjoy it.

Here's my little bit of heaven to share with you guys....doesn't it fill your heart with Happiness? it does mine and maybe I'm strange in that way that green fields of food make me feel happy.

new wicker furniture for our patio....

The end result turned out lovely. I love this new space to enjoy with my family. 

My little man watering the herbs out front for me. They all got transplanted and placed in the backyard. Both my kids love to help me in the garden and I am very passionate about teaching children where food comes from and how to grow it, we need future farmers, we need kids and families that care about growing food. 

It wouldn't be fall without beautiful sunflowers everywhere and here is one from my front garden. I love the colors I got from these sunflowers, they're all dark red and bright orange, absolutely beautiful! 

Finally enjoying our new space, you can see our chicken coop in the background and the cinder block wall of our raised flowerbed. Any day now our little chicks will start laying small eggs for us to collect and as they grow and mature the eggs will get larger. I can't believe they're already big enough to start laying! 

So whether you have a small backyard patio space or a corner in your house, find a space that you can create some comfort in and start enjoying that space every day :-) 

Raised garden

I have the best husband, any time I have some sort of crazy project I want done or crazy idea, he does whatever he can to help me make it happen! My chicken  coop was built on my original raised flower bed and with the intention of having plenty of room for chickens and veggies we built it pretty large....but my chickens love the veggies I plant inside there so it has been quite a hassle trying to grow veggies and keep the chickens from eating the plants before harvest time! So I wanted a raised bed for a vegetable garden in my back yard and that was the project we tackled today....

              It takes a lot of soil to fill in a 12X4 space

Got the location mapped out and the supplies ready. I'm so thankful my Husband is handy, he built me the nicest raised bed! 

Of course he had little helpers helping him too! 

He attached a weed proof cloth to the bottom so the remaining grass doesn't cause problems later. 

The kids helped us fill in all the gaps with organic garden soil. 

He placed PVC pipe and fixed them to the sides so we can slide some rebar down into them and put up the bird proof netting. It's ready for planting......Thank you honey for helping me build this project.