When we purchased our new house we inherited a swing set.  Will absolutely LOVES swinging on it.  Me?  I absolutely HATE mowing around it.  I solved that problem.

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We had also inherited a coy pond that was framed by 15 7' 4"x4".  Since I didn't want the coy pond and there was no moisture barrier between the brick on the house and the potting soil (yes, I said potting soil.  The people before us used bags of potting soil to fill a 7' x 7' x 10" area) I pulled the 4"x4"s.  I used them to frame out a 21' x 28' area around the swing set, sand box and picnic table.

As I was working away my neighbor showed up and offered the results of a ground out tree stump that he had on his property.  Since I had a birthday party to go to at 1, he filled up his truck, drove it over and dumped it.  All I had to do was spread it around.