Kevin Bradford

Now that you know the beginning of the story….

Here is the rest of the story…

On Saturday April 16th, I began the journey of building a Rainbow Play System All American Kingdm Swing Set!

We had 1 children’s pastor, 1 general contractor & construction company owner, 1 airplane painter (general builder), and me!

We began out the day by setting out all the wood, bolts, screws, and accessories. Sounds easy right? Yeah Right! This part of the process took almost 2 hours to get it all sorted, labeled, and read the instructions.

We worked for an additional 7 hours and ended up finishing 6 of 24 steps.

We were only 1/4 of the way done after a full days work. (at least we had fun!)

So Friday I took the day off, and JoNathan came over to help from 10 until 4.  Those precious 6 hours were spent leveling the swingset, and then building 3 more steps. After he left, I was able to get 2 more steps done.

Then in the last few minutes I was tightening one of my last few bolts of the day, and the wrench slipped and I got nailed in the nose. Yep!

Here is the Friday breakdown: 5 more steps done, 2 exhausted men, and 1 broken nose.

Some exciting news is that I finished 1 1/2 more steps tonight. I will work more tomorrow night to try and get into the home stretch.

This whole process has been a pain in the neck! It has been very frustrating at times, and very enjoyable at others.

The thing that keeps coming to mind when I am working on it is that every victory requires a price to be paid!

In order to get to the place, where my kids have a fantastic swing-set that I only dreamed of as a kid, I must pay the price of long days and a couple missed families times.

Overall: decision is worth it! (Next Swing-Set post will be once it is done and I will post a couple of pictures.)