From the smell of this, the ground in this newly constructed kiddies park got surfaced by a layer of shaved Jack Pine chips. (sniff, sniff) smells like from Espanola woodlands.
Now these Jackpine shavings are antiseptic. And the stuff is fresh and makes for a good surface for this year. It is cheaper than one tonne of beach sand.
But as this stuff weathers, it goes to a sickly grey. The shavings lose the elasticity and will begin to splinter into the little darlings' skins. Of course, this is a city project. The city designers are on strike. The politicians are on holidays.
For some reason I am thankful I am not a kid in today's world.
1 comment:
Are you saying these are really wood cheaps?
Maybe they're going to replace them every year because they're so cheap?
When they turn grey and sharp, maybe the parks people intend to burn them? They do make good kindling.
Then they can make a base of charcoal and ashes, so the little darlings can fall into them and make lots of puffs of fun, while turning different shades of different colors?
Har!
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