Snapshots: The Old Gym

Several weeks ago, when I featured the old schoolhouse in our ghost village, I promised that I would also show you the old gym next to it. Today is the day! Whee!

The gym was for the school, but is a separate building, just across a small basketball court from the school. It's a pretty impressive structure, built of giant stones. Thankfully, a roof has been kept on it, and no one has started to dismantle it, so it's actually in pretty good shape.

A. the Amateur Stone Mason approves.

It was used for a ranch supply store for awhile, but now it's owned now by a community improvement organization. They gave us a key to the gym, since we live closest to it. Ostensibly it's because then we can open it if needed for utility people or whoever, but really, we just use it as our own gym to play in on bad weather days. 

It doesn't have heat, and it's pretty dirty, but the kids love to go in there and shriek and run around. There are basketball hoops in there, but mostly they just race around with balloons or jump ropes or remote-control helicopters or anything else that requires a lot of space. 

They don't have to worry about breaking anything in here.

There were some dances held here a few times, but mostly, it just kind of sits there. Which is fine with us, because it's pretty fun having a gym to play in that we can walk to from our house and no one else is ever there. One benefit of living in a mostly abandoned village, I guess.