2012

[Rastus]

Yes....and it's a big-assed porch too.

With a swing set in the back, no less. What was the model?

[PegLeg45]

With a swing set in the back, no less. What was the model?

Installed under an oak tree just 30 feet from the Oval Office, the American-made, earth-friendly playground is from Rainbow Play Systems (rainbowplay.com), a company based in Brookings, S.D. The Rainbow Castle has been "tricked out with lots of bells and whistles," says owner Greg Foster, including swings, a climbing wall, a rope ladder, a slide, monkey bars and a "penthouse with a double bubble." (Translation: an upper-level fort with two Plexiglas windows that are deep enough to climb inside.)

http://www.azcentral.com/style/hfe/decor/articles/2009/03/19/20090319whitehouseswing.html

[tombogan03884]

Rastus is only partly right, while we are at the LOW point of the sunspot cycle NOW, (possibly just past it) Sun spot activity is now on an upsurge and is predicted to peak about the middle of 2012 with activity predicted to be somewhat less than the 2000 peak.
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SunspotCycle.shtml

I would think that this coupled with the explosive increase in computerization and wireless communications would be more hazardous to our society than anything else. Our society, as proven by Hurricane Katrina and it's aftermath, refuses to accord nature the respect deserved by it's shear power, very few precautions are taken to protect against acts of nature, which have the power of planetary forces behind them. People are STILL living in the flood plains in New Orleans, it is only in the last few decades that people have included "Earth quaking" technology into building designs, People still build large structures with flat roofs in the snow belt, and do nothing to protect buildings in other flood prone areas.
Protecting against something that may never happen is stupid if you fail to protect against things that happen every year or so, like wild fires in Ca. I have very little sympathy for the people who lost their homes, every single year they have wild fires, is it REALLY that hard  to figure out that you need to keep a fire break around your property ?

[tombogan03884]

Installed under an oak tree just 30 feet from the Oval Office, the American-made, earth-friendly playground is from Rainbow Play Systems (rainbowplay.com), a company based in Brookings, S.D. The Rainbow Castle has been "tricked out with lots of bells and whistles," says owner Greg Foster, including swings, a climbing wall, a rope ladder, a slide, monkey bars and a "penthouse with a double bubble." (Translation: an upper-level fort with two Plexiglas windows that are deep enough to climb inside.)

http://www.azcentral.com/style/hfe/decor/articles/2009/03/19/20090319whitehouseswing.html

Aren't his daughters in their TEENS ?

[PegLeg45]

Aren't his daughters in their TEENS ?

10 and 7........I think.......but big for their ages.

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