Swing Set

We got an old "free, you haul away" swing set. It needed some swings (still does), paint, and new bolts but the kids think it's great.



Anya has no rational fear of heights (she get's that from Uncle Justin). She loves being able to swing herself as high as she can go. At the park she is constantly asking for Under Dogs. The other mothers look like they can't believe I would sing a child in a "baby swing" that high .
Here you can see that the top of the wing set was faded red and rusty. We spray painted it with a spray paint made for use on rusty(but sound) metal. Of course I chose green because I am obsessed with that color in all it's many shades. Aaron is a good sport and has agreed to let me paint all of the walls inside the house various shades of green if I want too. He says it would be monochromatic-- it's a good thing I made him take that interior design class in college and didn't do all his homework for him.

So back to the swing set. We really had to work to get enough rusty bolts out so that it would fit in the back of a friends pickup. After we had the rusty bolts out there was no way Aaron was going to reuse them. We got some new bolt and Aaron did a great job getting it all back together and sturdy. He is now working on getting the slide in safe usable condition. It is in our garage right now and getting close to being ready. He is using a stray board I found at the park and brought home last week to make the ladder rungs (it is currently rusty metal). Now if any of you are marveling at our cheapness just remember it's called recycling too. Aaron is loving the excuse to use is own tools on his own work bench. But now he has also started talking about how much faster it would be if he had this power tool or that one. I remember the day he thought a leathermen was all the tool he needed.
Talmage insisted on taking a picture of the swing set so that we could "put it on our blog". This is his. He did a good job getting it clear.