Later, we brought out all of the deck furniture for both the main deck and the cabin after first sweeping the deck and trying to rid it of as much moss as we had the patience for. As long as I had the wide broom in hand, I also swept out Janelle's side of the garage. From there, we set up the athletic rings, hammock swing, and decorative spherical wire candle holders (... Janelle likes them) in our carport area.
With that work done, we set up the badminton net and played a game. I have advised the boys that I want them to practice hitting the birdie for a half hour every day so we can eventually get an actual volley going. We also set up our frisbee golf goals and played a couple of rounds. Rowen got play-of-the-game by making a goal from over twenty feet away. He then proceeded to throw if frisbee off course, backwards, and into the woods to come in last that game.
Connor managed to get his frisbee caught about twenty feet up in a tree. I chose to use a metal rake to toss up and knock the frisbee down--my thought being that the heavy metal head would be more likely to weigh down the branch that had captured the frisbee. It turns out that the prongs of the rake are particularly good at getting caught in the branches themselves. Using another rake, we managed to get the first one down, but I had stand on the second to last rung of my stepladder and reach with a rake to finally snag the bottom of the offending branch and shake the frisbee loose.
It feels like we are ready for summer.