Sandbox

I’ve been working on creating a sandbox for the boys for the last few weeks. Digging, by hand, an 8′ x 8′ pit, one foot deep.

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I worked on it a little bit at a time, a day here, a day there. With helpers, of course. Made a nice big hole in the ground.

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Then we built a low wooden frame for it. Corner posts over which we can loop some sort of netting to prevent the cat from getting in.

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And THEN!! Finally!! Yesterday, we were ready for sand.

We had a dump truck! In our driveway!

TRUCK!

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Spectators watch the dump truck approach the forest.

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The dump truck managed to get through our half-acre woods, between garden beds and raspberries, and down the yard to where the hole was ready and waiting.

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And then there was 4 cubic yards of sand. Just like that.

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The truck hadn’t even turned to leave before there was a boy on top of that mountain of sand.

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And many hours worth of fun followed.

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