Robin Hood vs Nazis!

When I was about 4 years old, I saw the animated movie, Robin Hood.  That was when I decided that I was going to be Robin Hood when I grew up.  I also decided, that in the mean time, I might as well practice.  So, I donned my loincloth, and set about making a bow and arrow set.  Where I got the idea that Robin Hood wears loincloths I don't know.
I determined that my bow would be a plastic hanger, and my arrows would be colored pencils.  I held onto the hook, and drew back the plastic as far as it could go without breaking it, (OK, I broke some) loaded my pencils, and fired heavily at various domestic animals, parents, small sisters, etc.  I would then run around the house and whoop and holler like an Indian, and bribe people to play with me and be Maid Marian.  We would play this with the Sherveims.  That would lead to about 6 shirtless kids in loincloths whooping and hollering like the dickens.  

The Doorway--the ferns are the camo for the door.  See it?

Years later, when I was probably 12, the Sherveims came over.  We hadn't seen them in a long time, so we decided we were going to reminisce in the way of adding on to games we played years ago.  So, we went out to the woods, where we found a large patch of ferns.  We went back to the haybarn, and built a nice fort, then split into two teams.  Older kids would pick ferns 100 mph, and younger kids would continue on the fort.  We then used the ferns as camouflage, because, you see, we were hiding from the Nazis.  There were 11 kids playing.  We hid there for awhile, and then we decided that the Nazis were gonna  
                                                                                       show up.  So they did, and we performed this beautiful shooting scene, where we all died.  Then they "left" and we decided that that was too short and not romantic enough.  So, we redid it and this time, the Nazis came, and we ran for the woods with the small children.  On the way to our other hiding place, two people got shot, and we had to carry them.  When we finally escaped them, we all bedded down on potato sacks (it was about sunset by then) and proceeded to have an epidemic of Scarlet Fever.  Everyone had their own ideas as to what the symptoms were, so that was interesting.  One by one, they slowly and painfully died, and we had to "bury" them under bushes.  Me and Sadie were elected to be the faithful nurses and to selflessly care for and "bury" the "dead".  Then, in one final episode, we both got sick from a combination of exhaustion and Scarlet Fever exposure and died under the stars.  It was beautiful.                                                                                 

The actual inside, looking over the wall. The carpet is moss and ferns.

The tunnel entrance, with door pulled back.  Carpet is moss.

This is the large area that used to be waist-high in ferns. We cleared it out.