We are officially on a roll with our playscaping! With the garden beds built, planted, and protected by a tall, tall fence it was time to move on to the sand pit. We went to our local landscaping center and bought 1200 pounds of local river rock for the bargain price of $18! Spending a drizzly morning picking through a huge pile of rocks may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it is a geologist's dream!
With a growing mess on the driveway from the mountain of dirt, and then the pile of rocks, we needed to get to work. We marked out the area where we wanted to build the pit, and handy husband excavated the ground with his sturdy shovel and steel shank boots. Waterbug helped, too, with his own shovel.
Ladybug and Waterbug helped to haul the rocks and place them around the pit.
Then we added a few bags of river pebbles to fill in around and behind the big rocks for stability, and it was ready for sand! 750 pounds of sand later and the sand pit is complete! Not bad for one afternoon's work, and the kiddos agree...and so does a chipmunk who has taken to hiding underneath the tarp cover.
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