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   Fairportfan2 said, 10 months ago

   When i was four, my Dad and i went down into the River Valley (Cleveland) and treenapped a maple sapling for our backyard.

   Fifty-nine years later, (fifty-five since we moved South) according to Google Earth, it’s still there and grown Rather Large.
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   mrbribery said, 10 months ago

   building a tire swing…

   for my great-grandson!
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   toppop52 said, 10 months ago

   “Life is just a tire swing…” (Jimmy Buffett)
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   Shyygirl27 said, 10 months ago

   So cute!
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   J Nichols-MacDonald said, 10 months ago

   He’s starting from scratch! :)
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   Keith said, 10 months ago

   Oh that we all had such long-range planning skills and persistence to follow it through.
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   Doctor Toon said, 10 months ago

   Our Aspen tree drops little babies all over the place, I usually just run them over with the mower
   

   
   New neighbor has about a dozen little ones growing in his front yard now
   

   
   We noticed he was mowing around them, he said that he’d priced having trees planted and decided it was a lot cheaper to let nature do the job
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   prrdh said, 10 months ago

   @mrbribery

   There is wisdom in Gene’s behavior far beyond his years:http://theseeker77.blogspot.com/2011/02/old-man-and-fig-tree.html
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   whmIII said, 10 months ago

   You want clean air…plant more trees!!! 5th grade science.
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    hippogriff said, 10 months ago

    whmill: Works until the air pollution is so corrosive that it kills the trees.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 10 months ago

    A nice idea but it will take more years than he will be a child to enjoy it.
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    Arianne said, 10 months ago

    My grandmother had a sampler hanging in her kitchen, it was so cheery and hopeful:
    
    Who plants a seed
    Beneath the sod
    And waits to see
    Believes in God.
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    Arianne said, 10 months ago

    @Fairportfan2

    I enjoyed your post – a story in two sentences – and “treenapped”, very much! : )
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    iced tea said, 10 months ago

    I have fond memories of my swing from childhood. It was a round plastic green disc tied to a branch of the sickle pear tree in our yard. I had much enjoyment from it.
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    hippogriff said, 10 months ago

    Ours was a bag swing – a pile of worn-out fabric in a burlap bag. Conforms to the body and you won’t get hurt if it hits you in the face. Disadvantage: it takes a day or two to dry out after a rain – less if you don’t mind looking like you had an accident.
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