Climbing Equipment

... Naomi sleeps over and reads at night ...

Both Chris Turnbull and Art Treleaven came to help reassemble a playground set that came to us via Art and Marcia’s backyard.

And there went a whole Saturday morning, with thanks to both of the men.

With the new equipment came a set of rules that had to be created by Richard and Miranda after seeing how the children used the new set up.

1. Michael can only use the middle swing. His body weight makes the assemblage shake too much if he is on the west end of the equipment.

... new playground equipment ...

 2 swings, hanging triangles, monkey bars,
a climbing wall, a ladder, an orange slide

2. Betty is not allowed to crawl along the top of the money key bars when Alice and Michael are using the swings below them.

3. Alice is not allowed to balance her body upright and walk along the top of the monkey bars, at least if there is an adult there who sees her try this.

4. Children who have tried all of the equipment are challenged by their dad to try to pull themselves up the climbing wall backwards, since there has to be something that is relatively safe left to do.

... playing bean bag toss  when not on the new climbing equipment ...

New rules to follow.

That is about it for a new beginning for play equipment that will be used for years to come.

Arta