As soon as I complain about the sub-par performances by my two Stanley cup playoff teams. THEY BOTH LOST GAME 1 BY A 4-1 SCORE!!!!!!!
That has to count for something, right?
Here's to hoping that the Canes or Jackets can turn their series around!
On with the pix: These are pix from Saturday, 4/4:
We put the roof struts up:
A different angle:
And now we have the roof on. Needless to say, Mollie and I have busted out the pilsners at this point, so you know our work is soon to be done. But the roof is on, so there's that, right?
Mollie puts the finishing touches on the 'Lemonade Stand'. (That's what Mommy calls it. Everyone else understands it for what it is - 'several hunks of wood to be ignored by the boy for the length of their existance.') But still, BRAVO, Aunt Mollie!
The 'fort' part of this thing, a bit further along.
SSSD from a different angle:
Eventually, we ran out of daylight that Saturday. Fortunately, we were nowhere near running out of beer. That swing hanger on the left - it's held in there by a clamp at this point. The boards that make up the swing holders were as warped as a Republican 'Family Values' Senator.
So, we took it into the garage and built what we could on the inside:
Inevitably, Sunday morning arrived, and a very hungover Aunt Mollie decided that she didn't want her image recorded for posterity. So first, she ran:
Then, she slept on the couch while Daddy put the swing part of the swingset together. Once Daddy made the whole thing work on his own, there was much joy in Mudville, and Aunt Mollie . . . did whatever it is that Aunt Mollie does:
OK, actually, part of that was unfair. Aunt Mollie helped me get the whole swing part of this apparatus together through a series of ingenious dis-assemblies - to the point where we were taking beams off of the 'tower' part of the thing. She was the linchpin in the whole operation, honest. But you'll notice that our blog's namesake was tickled with the result:
And here we are with the final assembled product (that's one of our awesome neighbor kids, Abby in the swing):
Abby helped me immensely through the last furlong of this project, so thank you, Abby!
Here is the 'curvy' slide on the set:
Colin's first trip down the slide:
He's still trying to figure out the whole 'slide/ladder' thing:
Cayden tries to show everyone how the climbing wall works (even though Mollie and I put the handles in upside-down, originally):
Daddy enjoys the final product in the foreground:
Neighbor Kelson looks through one of the windows:
Colin tries the climbing wall:
Kelson on the slide: 
Kelson at the end:
A gaggle of neighbor children in Der Schwingset:
The fat bastard who put this clusterf*ck together, enjoying himself for five minutes between the completion of a mediocre job done and the puck dropping on a Blue Jackets game: 
In a just world, my wife would understand the importance of PLAYOFF HOCKEY!!!!!Anyway, here's some videos of the remainder to complete the circle:
This is Colin's first time on Der Schwingset:
And here he is the first time down the slide:
And here are Colin and Kelson enjoying the swingset:
Lastly, here is the boy explainin' how amazing the whole thing is:
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