King of the Hill
Last year I used a skidsteer to move a heaping amount of dirt. I left a fairly large amount in the yard. I have decided that what remains, remains.
The grands love playing king of the hill. #1 joked that when they are grown they will tell their kids we were so poor all they had was a mound of dirt on which to play.
These three are the culprits of the nerf gun accident. We have a large assortment of swords as well so banning the guns won't remove the threat.....
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I see a moto cross bicycle jump in the making.
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Be careful. Social service sees kids having a great time with swords and in a dangerous environment like that is going to be trouble.
We didn't have nerf guns and '"safe swords", we used dirt clods and tobacco sticks for our weapons of choice to hold the hill.
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They will always love grandma.
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Great to see kids out playing like that instead of sitting indoors operating some electronic device. Kudos to you and the children's parents.
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We had tobacco sticks , dirt clods , several old pack houses to turn into forts and several hundred acres of woods ,swamps and pastures to roam.couple that with some fishing holes , reeds to make poles and a bicycle to ride and it was heaven . Mom would not let us stay in the house if the weather was good . I can hear her now ," it's too pretty to be cooped up in the house watching tv ,you younguns get in the yard and play ."
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I figured the goat would be involved.......
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I figured the goat would be involved.......
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dirt piles and kids are universal. when the farm field was turned into a level track discus field and an adjacent soccer field here, a large mound of clean dirt was mounded up on the side. even with a huge playground equipment area nearby, the vast majority of kids play the dirt pile. school property so weapons are frowned upon, but it does get rather physical including "malicious contact" at times, hehehehehehehehehe
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Looks like the kids are having a good time.......
I thought this thread was going to be about Hank Hill !!
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I tell you whut
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How close is that dirt pile to the driveway? I smell snow, skis, a long rope, a snowmachine and ballistic trajectories.
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that's a great way for kids to grow up nothing like a big old dirt pile
good on you for doing it and from the photos of your place they have a lot of room to wonder and just be kids .
sadly I grew up in town closest thing we had was a "dump site " maybe illegal but back then ? we had more than a few foundry's in the town aluminum and cast-iron foundry's I grew up in . the most notable Wagner's ( the famous skillet company ) Sidney brass and aluminum to name just two .
but any way one place would dump there old casting sand behind a barber shop in a small vacant lot just down the block from out place most of the time about a 1/2 dozen piles about three feet tall . OMG we ( kids ) loved it but we would get black along with our clothes all looked and smelled like a foundry from the sand and what every they mixed in ( I am sure it was all OK 🙄) they would come by and level it out every so often but not long the would start piling it up again
on the other end of the block was a town ship building even better ( well) they would have several piles of gravel to fill in holes in the close by roads we used as ramps to ride our bikes over and jump over the other kids dumb enough to lay if front of the ramp
down side they would also park a tar pot trailer there sometimes and well kids were kids we had to turn the handle and end up with tar on us and every thing around .. mom did not care much about that and dad warned us do not get that *(*^%^ on you stay away from it . how ever (the I am sure toxic ) sand piles were "you should not play in it " but what the heck
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We always had/have a dirt pile, what fun!
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Yep, I think the only bigger kid magnet than a dirt pile is a mudhole, how many times have you seen a kid just walk up and jump in a mud puddle to watch the water splash..........
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I grew up with a creek (crick was what we called it) in my backyard. The play there was endless!
During the winter months we always had huge piles of snow where plows piled it. King of the hill was a clean but cold sport for us.
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