garden and garage and swing

In keeping with our "do one thing each day theme" we did a couple little things each day this weekend. First, Matt painted the boards for the garage grading project that is in the works (don't you just loooove that peach color? Full disclosure, I don't but I don't dislike it enough to paint the entire house right now).

Next, Matt tackled the posts in the garden. If you remember, when we sunk them they ended up being differnet heights (which we expected, with the plan that we would cut them down later). Well, later is now and he got through 5 of them.

Here's an in process shot:

Before (notice the really tall pole second from the left):

And after!

Next we turned our attention to our lovely swing. Because we adore it and want it to be around forever, we want to be sure we are protecting it. Enter Thomson's Waterseal to help keep the water and the mildew out and the wood looking lovely. Before we did this I did some prep work last weekend to bleach out any of the mildew that had formed already and then gave it a good sand this weekend to make sure everything was nice and smooth.

 Here's a before

Matt getting the top

Halfway through (you can really see the difference here)

And after

We'll have to do this every year going forward to protect it from the wind and weather, but it'll be well worth it to keep it around and in mint condition through the lovely Wisconsin winters.