There is an abandoned kids playhouse on my property and I keep looking at it, thinking that I really need to make some sort of wildlife shelter from it. I haven’t got a clear picture yet of what I want, my world has been focused on renovating the woods and planting an understory.

But now my attention is drawn back to this little building. I haven’t been in it for two years. It is 10′x12′ and stands 8′ off the ground making it a bit awkward as a storage shed, I will not be pushing a wheelbarrow up the ladder. It’s extremely solid and not going anywhere for the next eon.

I am thinking about adding bat baffles (although it’s shady for bats), barn owl box along with swallow shelving, mason bee houses on the sides. Probably build wire bottom shelves for multi-purpose use by squirrels and opossums or shelf-nesting birds, dowels for roosting, lots of thoughts.

…And I need to look at some functional gardening around the outside, rocks (rocks and more rocks. I love stone. Piles, walls, walks, more piles…) to make it visually interesting…there is a lot of potential. Right now it’s rather desperately unattractive as well as unused. Maybe this weekend I’ll grab the Stanley Wonderbar and pull the floor up, start with a fresh pad of graph paper to draw out ideas. Time to get started. Knowing me I’ll be doing something strange to the exterior but first the interior. Wildlife could be using that space, I’m certainly not. Whatever critter wants it is welcomed but at this time it is a wasted resource.