Fort Troy

Having seen how much Troy enjoys going to the park and playing on the playground, we decided to get one of our own. We did our research to find one age appropriate and that had a lot of the things he enjoyed doing. Unfortunately, we didn’t research the dimensions well enough, and the thing ended up being a monster. But I’m getting ahead in the story.

It arrived on Wednesday in five boxes, weighing 160-200 pounds a piece. The delivery guys wouldn’t take it to the backyard for me, so I had to ask CC to come over to help me. As we started unboxing it, we figured out that this was going to take a while to set up. We worked for a few hours Wednesday, and a few more on Friday. I worked at it alone all day Saturday, and here we are again on Sunday.

It’s very nice and they gave us a detailed 211-step instruction manual to follow. What they didn’t give us was enough screws and bolts to finish the job. So, here I sit with a half finished play set, waiting for the rest of the parts to arrive.

When it’s complete, it will have a 10-foot tall central tower, a 6-foot smaller tower, with a rope bridge connecting them. On the other side there’s a swing set. And a circular hammock swing underneath the central tower. The smaller tower also has a blue slide. The whole thing is made of cedar, so it smells wonderful.

Troy is dying looking at it through the window, but not actually being able to play on it. I feel bad for him, but it’s going to be another two or so weeks before I get the remaining parts. I may have to appease him and figure out a workaround in the meantime.