It started as just the germ of an idea... a seed, really. My dad thought we should buy a play set, initially for Connor, but of course for Evie too. (It's not like my dad does not know that Evie exists, he totally does!) So I started looking into them, and what's involved, the different construction methods and heights, etc. and it turned into quite an education. But I decided on a company called Backyard Adventures and found a local dealer. Now we'll go back in time just a bit, to the spring of 2006 when we moved into our new home... when we did our landscaping Jodi thought it would be nice to have a berm in the corner, with trees on it. Sounds simple enough, so that's what we did. Well it turns out that was a good idea for about six weeks, which was when the weeds started taking over. The rest of the history of the berm is a torturous story of long days sweating in the sun, fighting for control of the area from nature, of lots of money spent on chemicals that had no real impact, etc. It was our own little nightmare. So in what seemed like a very synergistic (how often do you get a chance to use that word in a sentence!) idea, we figured we'd move the trees, knock down the berm, and put the play set in the corner!
Well that was the opening of what I affectionately (at least I can call it that now) referred to as our very own Pandora's Box...
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