On our recent trip to Missouri, Grandma and Grandpa Knoernschild (“Mamaw” and “Bopaw”) took Kyle and Ian to the tractor dealer. The boys were thrilled. Climbing around on tractors is WAY better than any playground.
Archive for May, 2009
TRACTORS!
Posted May 23rd, 2009, 11:06 am by karlPlayground assembly continues
Posted May 20th, 2009, 11:42 pm by karl
After I installed the ladder, Kyle climbs up into the playset for the first time
Daddy! The slide is missing!
Uh-oh...
Tuesday evening I installed two of the roof panels. They were still waiting to be raised in this photo
Wednesday evening, after finishing the two roofs and installing the fence panels and climbing handles. All that is left is the rock wall, slide, and swings.
Playground assembly, day 1
Posted May 17th, 2009, 8:52 pm by karlThis weekend we began assembly of the playground. We started by sorting all the parts.
The four boxes of wooden parts, sorted and labeled by part number
The hardware, sorted and bagged up by assembly step number. There are 38 steps in the assembly process, and we have a separate hardware bag for every 1 or 2 steps.
Assembly started with the main structure, which includes six vertical posts and a number of connecting planks
Steps 1-5 completed. Only 33 more to go!
Hard at work
At the end of the day, 7 steps completed.
Kyle is so excited about his new play set. He kept coming over during the day to see what we were doing, and near the end we couldn’t stop him from climbing around on it.
The yard work never ends
Posted May 8th, 2009, 7:19 pm by karlWe started out the day with a delivery of 2-1/2 yards of garden mix soil.
mmmmmm...... manure
Katra brought wheelbarrow loads to the back and began filling in the beds where they were still low. We never had a chance to fill in behind the new garden wall last year.
The flower bed by the pergola, before the new soil
The same bed after Katra moved some plants, installed some other plants, and filled up the beds. We still have to mulch.
During lunch and later in the day, I began widening another bed over against the east fence. We decided to do this to make the bed blend more with the play center area, and because it was too narrow in parts.
After lunch, with the sod cut back part way. If you look closely, you can see the cut line extending towards the back of the yard
The final product, with the whole bed tilled and a few plants moved in from other locations.
The sargentina crabapples are in full bloom. The smell of these flowers fills the entire yard.