One Swung Done

This afternoon we took the ladder up to the block to place the last log in the swing set.
The cross bar.
Very happy with the end result!
Kids called it superiffic!
It's so high that when I pushed the girls I could make a cup of tea before they came swinging back! Awesome.

We had a pretty good run at getting the posts in plumb and level only had to dig three of the holes deeper or wider or longer! (Sarcasm) it was a pain in the backside!
Liza was introduced to the supreme accuracy of my water level (see pic below)
Perhaps I should have left it at home, because I wouldn't have been quite so picky about the braces being level and the Height being so spot on as she was.

Something tells me that my usual "she'll be right" attitude towards unseen, unimportant, irrelevant construction details needs an overhaul, as Liza isn't going to like "close enough to caulk" as a house building mantra.
I'm going adopt a new mentality towards this project, one that I strive for in my furniture making and that is;
"To make as perfectly as possible" this is also the title of a new book being published by Lost Art Press, a translation of a French work on marquetry, by Andre Rubbo.
Still not sure if it applies to our garden furniture.

Now to get permanent seats in place and back into the wall again.
Yes that is a 6' ladder in the middle!

Board? Try Swinging...

No, not that swinging... Today we visited the second hand timber guy and got some 150mm treated posts. 4.5m long with the intention of building an awesome swing for the tin lids and big enough for the big kids too.


what's the legal overhang?

cutting the notches for the housing joints



housing joint completed with bolt hole

Fence finished
With all the extra work that we've had on at work and the rain i haven't had a chance to get up to the block to take a photo of the completed fence. It's a little sad now that it is finished as it makes it look so formal and hemmed in. But i guess that it the job of a fence.
Our neighbours are quick off the mark and have already planted some native plants along a new stretch fence.
The contractor did a good job and it looks as though it will last at least two or three generations.

Completed boundary fence

new plantings along fence lines - natives

Strong foundations
Also completed this afternoon was the end of the first course of the garden wall foundations (if you can call them that).
Although they look higglety pigglety, they are rock solid and do not move under foot as you walk across them, proof that the are tightly bound together and should provide a stable platform for our low garden wall.
Now to start on getting it out of the ground!