On Friday Delaney and Ella completed their first "real" painting project ever! They scraped, sanded and then painted our bench swing and did a fantastic job of it. This swing is old - we got it for a housewarming gift when we bought our first little house in North Minneapolis in 1974. It hung inside the front porch there for four years, then we had it on the front porch at our first house here in Indy from 1979 till 2000. When we moved to this house, we bought a metal swing frame and hung it from that and it has been on our back porch for 21 years. Added all together, we have been swinging in it for 37 years! It started out just stained a light color on the wood, but in the last 15 years or so the wood had become very discolored and bleached out. So it has now been "Carolina Pine Green" for quite awhile. Nothing like sitting outside on a summer day, swinging away on a bench swing!
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