I would add some terracing, with spots for a few chairs, a burbbling fountain, plants, like shrubs, flowers, and a few trees.. Birdfeeders... starting with some French drains, some safe steps... So much fun!
😂 My dad used to set up slip n slides for us using giant plastic painters tarps which he would hold down with bricks and fold the tarp back over so you couldn't see them. We all got very good at launching ourselves off the slide before hitting the bricks.
Can confirm...sledding through a fucking thorn bush...into..a frozen creek and breaking right through the ice into water. Thankfully, only 1-2 ft deep.
The most miserable, cold ass 1/2 mile walk home. My full-body snow suit did it's best but my boots were fill with water.
It's amazing what triggers childhood memories, haha.
Are you my dad? He had put a rope swing above a blackberry and stinging nettle pit that my 6 yr old brother fell into of coarse. Well, the swing was on a drop off so he rocketed into it. It was impressive for a few seconds.
That reminds me of the time I went over a jump on a 4 wheeler at the ranch my grandparents managed and didn't turn fast enough on the landing and went through the barbed wire fence
Looking back, who was the adult that looked at that and thought, yeah that looks good
I bet its really hot down at the bottom after that, maybe the only thing you should have down there is some fans... yeah, that make sense... only fans... at the bottom with the Jello and the slip-and-slide.
That’s what the ski lift is for… just hop off and you land right on the slip and slide. Circle/cycle of fun and you don’t even hardly have to move a muscle.
You’ve not seen the cheese rolling competition in Gloucestershire. There’s a Netflix show narrated by Rainn Wilson that has an episode about it that’s pretty good.
As a lad, I recall being the first few years that we stopped doing a Welsh Hill on bin bags, as it was a good massive drop for a long time with a barbed wire fence <10m from the bottom.
Usually people were fine. But when you flew, you flew, and even without the bin bag, you bloody flew.
My brother has a similar slant, has trialed the slip n slide but with that extra durable warehouse type polyurethane on a massive roll so it’s like double wide
Anyway, over the years, he’s learned $20 spent on some hay bricks really help cushion the impact and stop the speed, just put the end of the plastic roll up over the hay bricks and it will make a big “pool” of water at the end of the run, and that will create the first cushion area so they don’t hit the hay full speed
Have you seen those Brits chase the cheese wheel down the hill? They break bones and blow out joints tossing themselves down that hill. A slip n slide is WAY safer 😂.
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u/SplooshU 4d ago
Roll a wheel of cheese down it every year and have the neighbors chase it.