Adios Playset

We had the family over for a BBQ on Sunday to celebrate Jim’s, Eric’s, and Annie’s birthdays. Lots of fun, as usual! That evening, we began to disassemble our old, neglected backyard playset in order to get it ready to be hauled away by some friends. The friends have three young kids that actually want the swing set at their house, unlike Jacob, who has not used it for years. Jacob never was much of a swinger anyway. Jim and our next-door neighbor worked on disconnecting the plastic slide from the main structure and I made myself useful by wiping gross web-like larva crud off all the wooden boards. We plugged away for at least an hour and a half until it got dark. On Monday evening, Jim and Adam removed one of the main 12-foot long crossbars that held the set together. That took them about an hour and a half. We figured that it would take around 7 or 8 additional hours to finish taking the thing apart. On Tuesday, Ken, the swing set recipient, came over, and after about an hour and a half he had dismantled the entire wooden playscape and organized it into tidy stacks ready to be loaded into his vehicle. Hmmm. Well, he is an engineer, so we will just say that is the reason he was able to complete the task so quickly and efficiently. It couldn’t be that Jim, Adam, our neighbor, and I are just pathetically inept and hopelessly un-handyman-ish, could it?

Going . . .

Going . . .

Gone!