I have a sandbox at work! Unfortunately, it’s not the kind I played in as a kid, nor nearly as fun. This sandbox is a virtual place to play with new computer applications. The world has changed, right? I spent hours playing in a sandbox as a kid. Like everything else, my Dad made ours and it was cool because it had attached picnic table type seats. And a cover. Everyone knows you have to keep the neighborhood cats away from your sandbox. The cool thing about a sandbox is that there is no right or wrong way to play with sand, but yet many ways – from pouring, digging and sifting to scooping and stacking. You use your imagination. I remember building cities with roads, buildings and trees. The trees were my happiest part. I would use those small 2-leaf maple tree sprouts that popped up from seeds dropped by the tree above the sandbox. They were, in my estimation, perfectly sized for my cities. My cities had cars too…wood block scraps from Dad’s workshop. My brother’s cars were from Matchbox, but he didn’t share them much. You learn to share in a sandbox too – the space, the digging tools, and sometimes the Matchbox cars.
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Jeremy
3/14/2016 05:17:22 pm
I remember playing in that, I have a picture of Carl and I playing.
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