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These days theres a lot of talk about outdoor living, outdoor kitchens , outdoor livingrooms, heck even outdoor bedrooms and we know theres outhouses. So looking through a magazine of a tent that looked so inviting with an old fashion lantern , tea stained linens, flowers on the table , nice white down comforter on an old stressed out bed frame. The tent screen door flipped open from a breeze ( I think the magazine had motion, sure looked like it).
A fresh blueberry muffin and hot tea in a pretty china cup. A soft used ladies straw hat with a flower hanging over a ladder type wooded chair, the stressed look of course. Old suitcases stacked up with a good book on top.
Ahhhh I could live there and be as happy as can be. But why not was the message of the artical, "Do This Yourself"(Well really it was a Bed and Breakfast) but still I wanted to do this myself and sense I'm still on staycation ,I'll go for it : ). So I did it but it wasn't as picture perfect as on the glossy pages.
Heres my version of tent living just in our front yard and little to the left.
1. I had to find the tent first, the screen tent, I wanted air flow, I needed air flow.
2. Found it, but it was buried in much stuff thats been stored for a very long time. A Very Long Time
3. Found some cool stuff that I have been looking for so that was a plus.
4. Putting it up, its a by numbers type of tent and the numbers were gone , yikes . I had to wing it, that was fun----NOT.
5. Good news the zippers still worked but you could poke a hole in it very easy anywhere, dry rot. Duct Tape is awesome !!!!
6. Surprisingly it didn't smell To Bad.
7. It was airy, Holes
So after the screen tent was up and stood more then ten minutes I was on a roll and time to get it to look like my dream outdoor room. So off to go get chairs, table, flowers and white covers.
Dumping all the accessaries at the front I start to zip open, a little stuck at first, humm it worked earlier, oh plz don't break. It didn't but it came undone on the side. That can be duct taped. I get in there and realize its too sunny and hot, so I go and move it over just a couple of feet in the shade of the trees. Set up my table and chairs, Blackeyed Susans in a vase on the table. White cotton covers on the old cushion chairs. The magazine, the one that inspired me, laying on the table for me to compare. So off to get me some ice tea and I was done for the day and ready to relax in my outdoor living room.
Those outdoor living pictures don't show the bugs that come to visit and stay. There was more bugs inside my screen tent then ouside the tent. Maybe they subscribe to the same issue I was reading and like outdoor living too in a scabby chic way. Anyway they were there,so I open the screen door and shooed them out. I even left it open cuz they were getting in anyway , so I just let them buzz by while I read my mag and had my cold ice tea that was now watered down from my time shooing out the bugs. The magazine was a great bug swatter too.
After a while it got breezy and thoughts of getting a cot and spend the night outside. That all changed when we had the gang over for a birthday party. Do you know what dropped ice cream and cake brings in at night time , bugs and more bugs. (I got pictures of our fun B-day party and fireworks that I will be sharing on my next blog).
Then you get this lone mosquito thats mission in life is to make a super loud noise in your ear, and make you smack yourself. You can't get him, nope its not meant to be. You either take it or leave it and with holes in the screen you run to the house where theres the nice cool fan, soft bed and a big window you can look at all the stars to fall alseep by and also look at my dream tent too : (.
Oh the magazine is still an inspiration and I'll be looking for a better screen tent, maybe on sale this fall.
But until then I'll go sit in my patched up tent, try not to run another chair leg through it like I did when rearranging my outdoor living room furniture. Stick something in the very top, theres a basketball size hole in it. Could be the main reason for bugs, no no they came crawling in too.
Drink my ice tea and look at the magazines that makes me at least want to give it a try .
Heres a pic of my outdoor room , gosh I hope a big wind does't come up.
Thanks for stopping by
tc and many Blessings
linda
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