Spring is in the Air

It hit 64 degrees in Minneapolis yesterday. The sun was shining and it felt glorious. After a week of rain, almost all the snow is gone. Spring in Minnesota is one of the reasons I live here. It feels like a miracle every year. It looks like we'll be able to get the season started sooner that I had hoped. We are going to head up to camp for a day sometime soon to set up the tent and get a feel for how soon we could actually be camping. I'm sure the snow will be on the ground up there a bit longer than here and even after it melts, the ground will be a muddy mess for a while. We've been working on a few projects around here in anticipation of the season. The outhouse is complete and ready to be transported. Ray and the boys are building an archery target. Ray found some instructions for making a target out of a plastic tarp. He doubled the tarp and stitched up the sides. Next, the whole thing gets stuffed with recycled plastic bags and then a bulls-eye is painted on the front. The whole thing is pretty big. We stuffed all the plastic we had laying around in there and now we only need about 4 million more bags. That's where my local readers come in! Do you have a bag of bags under your sink? Next time you're over, drop them off! Once the thing is more finished, I'll include a photo. It should be pretty fun. Ray and I decided to invest some time and energy setting up some fun things for the kids to do rather than spend all our energy on the building plan. If all we do is work up there, it kind of defeats the whole purpose of the place. The kids need to love it and they won't if mom and dad are just working all the time. Once the kids have learned how to entertain themselves there, we will have more freedom to work on our projects. Another thing we're looking into - zipline!!!