our swingset adventure… part 2

Once the foundations were set, we were ready to have the swingset arrive! So on Thursday at 1pm, we watched as the steel frame arrived on a flatbed truck (thank you Prairie State Steel!), and was lifted off and transported to its new home in our backyard (thank you Broeren-Russo forklift!).  The girls didn’t like the noisy forklift so much, but were entertained by the whole process (and their popsicles as well).  It took a few tries to decide what to do at first — Sky’s original plan was to set the frame by the driveway and then move it by hand using a pallet jack, but that turned out to be too precarious (the frame is a bit top-heavy, and threatened to tip over).  So the forklift just carried it all the way to the footings, and set it in place!  Next step – paint!