When we moved into this house, the very first project that McMoose started was to build a huge sandbox for the kids. Except for the past year and a half, it hasn't been a sandbox so much as a...box. In the yard. With a tarp lining the bottom. With no sand. This was partly (mostly) because this box required two tons of sand to fill it up. Have you ever tried to buy two tons of sand? (A) When we priced it out, the cost was estimated at around $500-$800 and (B) How on earth were we going to transport two tons of sand?! We considered having it delivered, but they would have plopped it down in our front yard and then we would have had to wheelbarrow it to the back. No. Thank. You.
A couple of weeks ago, I reached the end of my sandbox rope and told McMoose that I was sick of looking at the hole in the ground and if we were going to get sand, it needed to be now. Turns out my timing couldn't have been better because we found a new landscaping place that would sell us two tons of sand for about $50 AND our friend and his pick up truck were available to help us get our sand that day. Bonus: his truck fits through our gate, so he just drove around back and put the sand directly onto the box. Yay for no wheelbarrow!
So the first yard project we started is finally complete! And we have been used the sandbox just about every day for the past two weeks. And since we're out there anyway, the rest of our yard gets more use, too.
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Sand! Yeah! Outside! Yeah!
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