Head Tale

With our respective schedules, Shea and I end up with one Friday off together each month.

Yesterday, we did some errands in the morning then went over to our kids’ school where, after years of fundraising by the Student Community Council, they were finally about to build a new playground structure with the help of a bunch of volunteers.

After a week of rain, it was muddy but an otherwise beautiful day and we quite enjoyed talking to the other parents, watching the structure come together, and thinking about the years of enjoyment that the younger kids in the neighbourhood will get from this new structure (just as the now older kids got from the last structure over the years.)

Here are some photos from our day…

Right after we arrived, Shea climbed up on the half completed structure early and never left until they shut down for the day!  

We weren’t completely a volunteer crew. They had hired a project manager who oversees the building of playground structures as a part-time gig when he’s not building houses.  This was the view from his table. 

At recess, the kids were very curious about the new playground but teachers did a good job of keeping them away from the dangerous job site (they had to pre-dig about a dozen or so holes for various poles so we actually had some volunteers tripping in holes and occasionally dropping bolts and other parts into the holes as well!)

Near the end of the day, they realised they’d missed digging one hole.  Luckily, they were able to get to the proper spot by only removing one component of the otherwise near-finished structure!