Backyard Adventures and Backyard Games – April 11 Edition
Welcome to the April 11 edition of Backyard Adventures and Backyard Games — the Carnival of Family Fun.
Backyard Adventures and Backyard Games — the Carnival of Family Fun brings you thoughtful blog posts about family activities in the backyard, including ideas for family fun, BBQ cooking, swimming pools, garden patios, wooden decks, family pets, backyard sports, backyard toys, and vegetable gardening, lawn care, and flower gardening. Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter — year round fun for kids and adult children of all ages!
This edition is arranged by subject heading, so that you can browse efficiently.
Enjoy!
Jack Deacy-Russell
Backyard Sports
The Fairway Golf Slicer presents Discount Golf Clubs | Discount Golf Equipment | New and Used Golf Equipment posted at How to Swing a Golf Club, saying, “It is a good time to start practicing your golf game in your backyard. Get some cheap clubs and a practice net and wack away. Careful with the divots, because you are the grounds keeper in you own backyard!”
Backyard Toys
Edmond Barre presents Tennis Ball Machine | Tennis and Tennis Equipment posted at Beer Pong Equipment, saying, “If you are lucky, you have a tennis court in your back yard. But, if you have a cement patio and a decent fence at least you can practice your returns with a Tennis Ball machine. Since they are portable, you can pop them into your minivan and take them to the nearest tennis court, as well.”
BBQ Cooking
Myscha Theriault presents Back Yard Barbecues that Won’t Break the Bank | Wise Bread posted at Wise Bread, saying, “Following are several ideas to pull off a successfully hosted event without busting your budget.”
Jan Hendricks presents Cooking by Broiling | Cooking by Roasting | Roasting Meat posted at History of Cooking, saying, “Two conditions are necessary for good roasting – a clear bright fire and frequent basting. Next to boiling or stewing it is the most economical method of cooking. The meat at first should be placed close to a brisk fire for five minutes to coagulate the albumen. It should then be drawn back a short distance and roasted slowly.”
Jan Hendricks presents Discount Stainless Steel Grills posted at History of Cooking, saying, “Information about stainless steel grills for barbeque on your backyard deck or patio.”
Family Fun
Raising Whiskers presents Big Cat Games – Cat Games – Mouse Play – Cat Play posted at Cat Care Tips, saying, “If you want to improve the mental and physical prowess of your cat, you should try playing some big cat games with her.”
Margaret Garcia presents 100 Fun, Healthy and (Mostly) Free Family Activities posted at Ultrasound Technician Schools.
Flower Gardens
GrrlScientist presents Let’s Give Three Bronx Cheers for Bumblebees! posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, “This essay, filled with pictures and valuable reference books, discusses the natural history and economic importance of Bombus species — the Bumblebees — and what you can do to help keep them happily living in your garden.”
AdmirableIndia.com presents Trip to Tawang: Part 3: Seven Sisters waterfall, Cherrapunji and Tawang monastery, Tawang posted at AdmirableIndia.com.
Summer Fun
Edmond Barre presents Beer Pong Equipment | Tennis and Tennis Equipment posted at Beer Pong Equipment, saying, “Beer Pong is a real crowd pleaser for the adults. After Grandma takes the kids to her house, gather your friends in the backyard for some beer pong fun.”
Vegetable Gardens
Eric Keith presents Staking Tomatoes posted at Farm and Field Survivalist.
Bobbie Whitehead presents Potato Planting Time posted at Bobbie Whitehead, saying, “Home gardeners as well as professional growers don’t have to settle for just the white potatoes in their gardens. Garden centers, markets and seed shops have potato sets for varieties such as Yukon Gold and Red Pontiacs as well as popular white potatoes.”
Chris presents The Great Sunflower Project – free seeds! posted at Smith Family Garden, saying, “Free Sunflower seeds for your garden! The Great Sunflower Project wants to determine areas where bee numbers are critically low. You can help and get free seeds in the process.”
Wooden Decks
Jack Clifton presents Refinishing a Redwood Deck posted at How to Build a Deck, saying, “The problem with having a planter in the middle of a deck is that it completely chopped up the space and made the deck far less useful than it otherwise might have been. A six foot by six foot planter almost in the center of an otherwise flat wood deck that was about 20 feet by 28 feet in overall dimensions was little short of idiotic, but I guess that everything is in the eye of the beholder.”
Jack Clifton presents Attaching a Wood Deck to a Cement Foundation posted at How to Build a Deck, saying, “Given this layout of the house, the decking contractor decided to use the foundation of the house on the three sides of the interior U shape of the house to provide support of the edges of the deck and to ensure that the deck was level with the interior floor of the home at the doors.”
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