Get Into the Swing
For today's blog, Trish, a NetShops buyer, took a brief respite from adding products to our ever-expanding selection to step in as a guest blogger. Here goes:
Last weekend, my family was the recipient of a free, but highly used swing set. With little effort or desire on our part, we now have a double-wide tetanus shot of a swing set causing all sorts of difficulties in our back yard. Gone is the meditative nature of mowing our backyard. Now we have to duck and weave like prizefighters to avoid poking our eyes out on crossbars as we try to mow under and around it. Not to mention the liability involved if any children actually played on the set.
Our son is three and is probably old enough to enjoy a swing set this summer. I remember how our swing set provided a focal point of activity for many years while I was growing up. The first time I got the wind knocked out of me was after failing to do a bird’s nest properly on the gymnast rings. You know what a bird’s nest is, don’t you? You put your feet and hands in the rings, then invert so your stomach is facing towards the ground. Fun stuff.
Despite my feelings of nostalgia, somewhere around five minutes into our relationship with the gratis swing set, we decided to give it up to those who enjoy free things via Craig’s List. We understand that someone showing up in our backyard with tools to dismantle and take it away might radically upset our toddler. Thus, we need a replacement.
Thankfully, NetShops has a site to help us appease little John: www.swingsetsource.com. Towers, sandboxes, and climbing walls are some of the awesome features we can select on a new play set. Heck, some of those swing sets are really almost a small village.
We’ll have to do some measuring to see which set will fit in our backyard, but I’m confident we can find a swing set that will reduce our mowing resentment and entertain our little guy for years to come.