I spend a lot of time in my back yard working on Gardens, Mowing the grass, Composting, Mulching, Growing Vegetables and Fruits, Working on my Truck and some Cars, Doing odds and ends, Working in my Shed, Scheming against the Groundhogs and Possums, Doing Crafts, and so on. I call it my Back 40.
-- Etymology: back + forty, meaning “back side of a farm”. In the Homestead Acts (1860's), American farmers were granted a quarter section; a section was 640 acres, a quarter section was 160 acres, and the quarter section was itself subdivided into four quarter sections of 40 acres each: two front forty and two back forty which were wild or rough terrain adjacent to a developed area.
At times, My back yard seems like Wild and Rough terrain. Thus I call it the Back 40.