I'm thinking of those giant cable spools now! There's a place near here where I sometimes walk where there are BUNCHES of those all stacked up, and I'm always thinking how great they'd be for picnic tables--put a shade umbrella in the middle of them and you're good to go! And I can *completely* picture your forts (both the tiny ones for centipedes and the big ones out pallets, cable spools, and corrugated metal). When I was growing up there was an area where lots of large piping had been abandoned--not so large or sturdy that you imagine it for sewers, but for example, what you'd use to channel a creek under a road--and we used to like to crawl through those and imagine those as hideaways or tunnels to places.
PS--I didn't know "caliche," so I looked it up, and am once again wowed by how diverse the biomes are on good old planet Earth.
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I'm thinking of those giant cable spools now! There's a place near here where I sometimes walk where there are BUNCHES of those all stacked up, and I'm always thinking how great they'd be for picnic tables--put a shade umbrella in the middle of them and you're good to go! And I can *completely* picture your forts (both the tiny ones for centipedes and the big ones out pallets, cable spools, and corrugated metal). When I was growing up there was an area where lots of large piping had been abandoned--not so large or sturdy that you imagine it for sewers, but for example, what you'd use to channel a creek under a road--and we used to like to crawl through those and imagine those as hideaways or tunnels to places.
PS--I didn't know "caliche," so I looked it up, and am once again wowed by how diverse the biomes are on good old planet Earth.