We were psyched to begin working on the lift chair swing for Sam. We’ve had this old lift chair from the Bolton Vista run since a week or so after Sam’s death. My friend Chris and I went up and I bought this for some reason. I guess I always intended it as some sort of tribute to Sam.… The 16th anniversary of sam’s death is coming up in a couple of weeks so we felt motivated to make this happen. Yesterday we had taken some measurements of the wonderful swing that Maries  uncle Frank had made for her memorial garden… We had taken measurements and we talk to Frank and found out that he and his wife Vicky had actually bought us a set of braces that you could use to build the A-frame to hang this way.… Jen reached out to them and luckily they had plans to come to Burlington. They agreed to bring those swing brackets which were a key piece. We so appreciate their help on this!… They drop the brackets by and we headed to the hardware store to buy a bunch of pressure-treated wood to build a very tall frame. We have decided we wanted to keep the entire structure of the lift chair intact… Which meant the frame had to be 11 feet tall.… That’s a lot of wood for the top of our little CRV.

Diane and I iterated a couple of times on a design and headed in to buy the wood and hardware. We got back from that trip and quickly got to work.… Luckily just at the end our friends Morgan and Joe came by and morgan and I were able to lever the giant structure up into the air. Joe is pretty heavy is a carpenter so he was able to help us with some of the finish work as well. It was so great to have them here to hang out with as we worked

 

Thanks to Joann Morgan we were able to get the whole thing done in a single day. We celebrated by going out to dinner with them and Kevin and March in Burlington for tacos… Great day

nite all, nite sam

-me

ps.. Diane is continuing her Master plan to mouse brief our house… It seems to be working. Our mouse captures our way down. We’re monitoring the outside of the house and one funny thing is that this possum circles our house every night… Both front and back doors. It’s kind of a pet I guess… As long as he doesn’t get into our house. I ghotta put thsi video to music (Phish’s Possum ?)