Playground: My Mission

I was making these posts at Kaboom.org, a site for playground building. I am dissatisfied with how difficult it is to provide a link to my blog, so I will now just post my progress here. There will be several posts on today's date (6/17/09), but I will date them for the dates they were originally entered.
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6/11/09

My mission is much the same as Kaboom's. I believe that play is an essential part of a child's growing up. I have even had the privilege of being part of a team in Honduras building not only houses for orphans, but also a nice playground for them.

My wife and I live in Franklin, Tennessee, which is just south of Nashville. We have a one acre lot, but a fairly small area on that lot to build a play area, because of a large front yard and septic/field lines in the back yard. However, that small area is perfect.

I may be spending more money than absolutely necessary, but I hope ideas and experience are gained for other fathers building playgrounds for their children. I am building my playground for my now 22-month old girl Jessie, and her on-the-way sibling due in October.

Here are my plans:

1. Choose playset from Amish maker near our home (if you live in the area, contact me here and I'll give you directions).

2. Investigate rubber mulch/costs and order.

3. Prep site

4. Get lumber and materials for border

5. Get playset from Amish builder when ready.

Larry Crockett
Franklin, TN
Run with whatcha brung, and hope you brung enough