Building Begins

Ray, Cody, Kubasa, Jameson, John and Walter drove into town this morning to purchase the playground material needed to begin building.

Ray, Cody and Walter were planning a "Quick Trip" to the local building supply centre to purchase our steel tubing, welding rods, elbows and other similar supplies. We left at 9.00 am and returned at 2.00 pm. Some quick trip! After visiting seven stores, and re-visiting three of them, we finally purchased all of the supplies. We had to change our design in a few places, not being able to purchase certain items, and we had to hire a person to drive our purchased items back to Lifesong. How he carried 20 six-metre steel tubes on a small pickup truck is beyond us! You need to be an expert knot maker or Scout to do it. By the way, do not complain to ANY of us about potholes in Canada. Here we have craters (literally). And many.

When we arrived back at Lifesong and finally had a bite to eat, we began building the swing and by 5.15 we had the four-seater swing assembled, welded and ready to cement into the ground.

Posted by: Walter and Cody