This is the stone bench where I work on all my wood and leather projects while the kids play on the playground just a few steps away. I can't get much work done inside during the colder months so when it gets warm the kids and I are both itching to get outside, and we've spent a good chunk of this spring and summer out there. To be outside doing what I love under that purple tree and then under the honey locusts that bloom right after it, watching the seasons change and the kids playing happily, man: I've felt like just about the luckiest guy on earth.

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