I have found since I FIRE'ed, I enjoy even MORE, just being outside. In New England, you really appreciate the warm weather when you have it, but I hike daily, year round, as long as the snow isn't deep. Cold and ice doesn't keep me an the dogs from going out.
Our 3+ acre lot here backs up to a beaver dammed marsh, we are on a hill about 25 feet above it. As soon as the snow melted this spring, I started cutting a trail along the marsh edge down below and found a wonderful spot under some trees at the water's edge. I named it "the hollow". I bought a couple resin chairs, built another firepit and although it's walkable, I often ride my ATV down there (just because I can!). I made a table out of a 5 gallon bucket and it contains binoculars, bug spray, a flashlight, some tissues and some WD-40 to clean off the pine sap that you WILL get on you.
The marsh changes all year round. Lots of visible water in the early spring, but then it "greens in" pretty thickly once summer sets in. Tons of frogs, snakes, turtles and birds of all kinds including a couple huge blue herons that cruise the marsh up and down. Peepers in the spring, bullfrogs late summer. Fireflies... I could go on. A wonderful place to bring a cold beer late afternoon to just relax and watch an listen. A few years back saw a bald eagle eating a Canadian Goose! Saw him a couple weeks after that, but never again since. Winter, it is a frozen snow and ice field usually for months.
I never seemed to have much time to just sit and watch nature when I was w*orking. Always enjoyed it, but since FIRE, now even more.
Anyone else find special outdoor spaces and newfound connections with nature since FIRE??
Our 3+ acre lot here backs up to a beaver dammed marsh, we are on a hill about 25 feet above it. As soon as the snow melted this spring, I started cutting a trail along the marsh edge down below and found a wonderful spot under some trees at the water's edge. I named it "the hollow". I bought a couple resin chairs, built another firepit and although it's walkable, I often ride my ATV down there (just because I can!). I made a table out of a 5 gallon bucket and it contains binoculars, bug spray, a flashlight, some tissues and some WD-40 to clean off the pine sap that you WILL get on you.
The marsh changes all year round. Lots of visible water in the early spring, but then it "greens in" pretty thickly once summer sets in. Tons of frogs, snakes, turtles and birds of all kinds including a couple huge blue herons that cruise the marsh up and down. Peepers in the spring, bullfrogs late summer. Fireflies... I could go on. A wonderful place to bring a cold beer late afternoon to just relax and watch an listen. A few years back saw a bald eagle eating a Canadian Goose! Saw him a couple weeks after that, but never again since. Winter, it is a frozen snow and ice field usually for months.
I never seemed to have much time to just sit and watch nature when I was w*orking. Always enjoyed it, but since FIRE, now even more.
Anyone else find special outdoor spaces and newfound connections with nature since FIRE??