Our "Dragonfly"

This is for anyone who has ever been a kid and I’m sure most of you have. Anyone who might not have been, listen closely and you might learn something or you might not.

We all know a jungle gym is not just a jungle gym and if you didn’t you are most likely in the second group. It’s a roller coaster, a swing, a house, a boat, a life saving instrument or something that might squish you, under the right circumstances.

Us kids, no, not the rest of you, just us Nemo kids and certain relatives, loved our jungle gym but recently it was confiscated by the army! Ok, it wasn’t but the Blackhawk helicopters did eye it for awhile. Mother was the one who took it. Remember those hoop houses I mentioned? Well, our jungle gym is one of them. “Oh,” she says. “That’s perfect!” You can guess what happened next. No, it didn’t magically turning into a boat. It was turned into a strawberry covering tool. Sigh. No more grand adventures there. But, didn’t I say I we are stubborn? Oh, we weren’t finished! Who needs a boat when you can fly? So, we took the big black tube, which is something like fifteen feet long and stuck it through a tire in the front and a rope in the back and hung it from the swing set. Bang! We have a dragonfly.

We had big plans, paints, wings, harnesses. Did I say we were stubborn? Yes, but unfortunately - well, let's just say it wasn’t one of Mom’s projects and didn’t have priority. So, it is still a black tube but it is our black tube and we still think of it as a dragonfly.