About half of my hard is taken up with a pretty good size pool that gets used e months out of the year but I still like it and enjoy sitting by it with my coffee even in the winter. I have a round concrete pad from when the kids were here and there is a trampolie, I found this round settee thing on walmart.com that I can lounge on with the animals and read its in the shade...I may have to ask for that for valentines day.