Take it outside
When we bought our house many years ago, it was on the edge of our small town in a quiet “no outlet” neighborhood of about 15 houses. Ours was the smallest house in the neighborhood, but a huge selling point for me was 6 acres of empty land (owned by the church at the far end of the property) that backed up to our lot. With no fences around our or the adjacent lots, it was as if that 6 acres was our own outdoor oasis. I even mowed a little “field of dreams,” complete with bases and a removable chain-link backstop, into the corner of the church’s property, where kids would gather for pickup baseball and kickball games. Now, 20 years later, all of the dead-end roads have been extended, most…
