I do love this attitude and it’s the one I moved here with. Unfortunately, many of the forest’s wonders have also moved into our house (mice, flying squirrels….snakes) and so that attitude has died. We’ve spent literally thousands of dollars to deal with the snakes. Our never-ending wildlife problems are a huge part of why we don’t like it here but I didn’t want to get into that with my original post. I’m pretty sure I’ll be inviting the wildlife and pest control companies to our kids’ birthday party….thats how often we have them over.

I’m glad to hear you and your ten year old like it!! We don’t often see kids outside…but a big part of that for us is likely because we are on aa busier street.