
This first photo, taken in 2001, is of the North side of our house/backyard. The house you see on the left is our neighbor's house. The grass and small retaining wall that curves tot he right is ours. (Most of the manual labor and work we've done is on the south side of the backyard, but the addition that is the subject of today's post is the north side/play area, so you'll just have to wait to see another post that shows the south side progress.)
As you can see from the photos, we have a very steep yard. In 2004 we used our tax refund and some savings to have a landscape company create a large, flat play area with a big rock retaining wall. It cost WAY more than I want to even think about, but they did a great job and it finally gave us enough flat space to do something with. Our neighbors had moved a few years before and had given us their old metal swing set, which we moved up to the newly created play area.
here's a photo of the beginning excavation and another photo of the beginning of the wall; if you look closely, you can se


Now several years, many truck loads of wood chips and sand, and a few Little Type plastic play items later, we have once again spent more than we wanted and purchased a new play set.
Roll forward to Feb 20, 2008:
Here is a photo of the play area Wednesday morning... (the little tyke cabin is tipped upside down to get it out of the installers way)
And here is the play area a couple hours later... (I still need find a way to fit the cabin and some other toys back up there... but I'll figure it out later)
4 comments:
Looks great! Your kids will have lots of fun on it--well worth the good deal you got, I'm sure. I saw a quote this morning at the gym that went something like this: When you give a child a happy childhood, you also give them memories of a happy childhood twenty years later. I thought it was somewhat profound--made me think about the childhood I'm giving my kids anyway. But I also thought it was dumb because it should have said you give them memories of a happy childhood for the rest of their lives, not just twenty years later. Here's to happy playset memories!
That is awesome! You go girl! I love it when things come together like that. I hate how expensive everything is though. I have looked at those play sets too. I would love to get one but haven't wanted to put the money up yet.
It looks great!
This looks awesome, Jeri! Anything that gets kids outside and keeps them active is a good investment.
I'm sorry to hear that your sweet baby is sick, but glad he's not in the hospital.
WOW! It looks great! Good job.
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