The Weekly Cool #3: Sandboxes
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When I'm thinking about nostalgic things, sandboxes always come up eventually. Many hours were wiled away playing in the sandbox when I was 4, 5, 6, 7-ish years old.
Our sandbox wasn't one of those fancy, cheap, plastic deals either. Our sandbox consisted of four long pieces of wood. Sort of like square logs, for lack of a better description. Worked for us because it was a decent size, too.
Let me tell you, we knew how to have fun in the sandbox. We would get sand everywhere. I don't remember how many times my parents would shout at us from the house, "Keep the sand in the sandbox!" We would get so dirty that, for a while, unless we had special permission we were only allowed to play in the sandbox on Saturdays because we'd be taking baths anyways (weekly bathing, haha 
). Heck, I'll be the first to admit that sometimes I'd tuck my shirt in, fill it with sand, and then walk around saying, "Hey, look at me! I'm fat!" xP
Water. It was great for sandboxes! After a rain we'd gather up water that filled any of the yard toys and use it for the sandbox. Water could make moats, rivers, lakes, and such. Or you could take some sand, clump it together with water, and then when it dried out it would hold it's shape if you were gentle. "Fossils", we called 'em. Of course, our parents always told us to dump it out, so it was a race to find all the water and have as much fun as we could before we were told to dump it.
Then there was the year with all the ground hornets(?). They loved to burrow in the sandbox so we could never play in it. Made us sooooo mad. :angry:
But yeah, there's no denying the awesomeness of a sandbox. You guys ever do anything crazy in a sandbox?
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