{"id":1020,"date":"2009-03-23T07:31:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T12:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2009-03-23T07:31:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T12:31:19","slug":"building-a-playset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/building-a-playset\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a playset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have had so many playsets- all built from scratch by Andy and then usually left with a house when we moved.<\/p>\n<p>Our latest playset was a victim of a dumpster that was delivered when we were doing our remodeling.  Andy tried to put it back together with pieces from a neighbors Rainbow system that he bought off of them but the pieces were rotting and it ended up in a frustrated pile in the yard.<\/p>\n<p>So when he started talking about putting it back together yet again, I begged for him to start from scratch, with a kit.  One that wasn&#8217;t a million different colors, an eye-sore in the backyard.<\/p>\n<p>He reluctantly agreed and came home with a bunch of boxes and instructions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3379107646\/building-the-playset.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"building the playset\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3467\/3379107646_2c7ce6a50e_b.jpg\" alt=\"building the playset\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Two of the boys were all over the project.  Offering up their help left and right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3378290361\/building-the-playset.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"building the playset\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3602\/3378290361_8990a47e61_b.jpg\" alt=\"building the playset\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>They worked all day but still didn&#8217;t finish<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3379110238\/building-the-playset.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"building the playset\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3623\/3379110238_67b6b47f2a_b.jpg\" alt=\"building the playset\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>but it&#8217;s getting close.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/3378292759\/building-the-playset.html\" class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Large\" title=\"building the playset\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3589\/3378292759_f89ac30307_b.jpg\" alt=\"building the playset\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>and this little guy can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<p>The finished product- hopefully by next weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/383054ll.jpg\" alt=\"383054ll\" title=\"383054ll\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/383054ll.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/383054ll-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/383054ll-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/383054ll-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have had so many playsets- all built from scratch by Andy and then usually left with a house when we moved. Our latest playset was a victim of a dumpster that was delivered when we were doing our remodeling. Andy tried to put it back together with pieces from a neighbors Rainbow system that he bought off of them but the pieces were rotting and it ended up in a frustrated pile in the yard. So when he started talking about putting it back together yet again, I begged for him to start from scratch, with a kit. One that wasn&#8217;t a million different colors, an eye-sore in the backyard. He reluctantly agreed and came home with a bunch of boxes and instructions. Two of the boys were all over the project. Offering up their help left and right. They worked all day but still didn&#8217;t finish but it&#8217;s getting close. and this little guy can&#8217;t wait. The finished product- hopefully by next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[544],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-playset"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}