Productive Sunday.

Hung the kids tire swing using a length of chain that’ll hold 1,300 lbs, and used a padded tree wrap to protect the tree for a change. It’s now a tad higher than usual but the kids are bigger, and it’ll allow the grass underneath to see sunlight, and rain fall. So a win all around I think.

Next up was the slack line with all of the monkey knots, trapeze bars, and rings for dangling on. That was no problem to put up. I was smart enough to grease the ratchet portion in the fall when I put it away, so no problems here.

I have not put up the spalted maple swing I made as the rope is too badly damaged from UV rays, and stretching over a few years of use. I left it up for a fairly long time. Like, think of several years of hot-hot summers, and ice cold winters doing a number on some cheap nylon rope. It was ugly. It cracked into pieces in my hands.

Then the coup de grace was taking down the exterior Christmas lights from up on the house. It wasn’t so bad. Gave me a chance to triple check the gutters, and the downspouts too. I fixed a squashed gutter in just a few moments worth of work. Glad to get that done. All completed and squared away. Nice.