Katy’s friend Michelle got married this weekend in the N. Georgia mountains. The wedding was a low-key outdoor wedding, with the reception under a big tent and everybody camping afterwards. Not the kind of event that Ona would be happy with (she’s… ehhh… addicted to air conditioning), so I got to stay home and have Daddy weekend. Saturday afternoon we went to the hardware store and had a blast looking around. So much fun that I ended up buying a swing and all the fixins to attach it to the tree growing through our porch. Katy and I decided last week that we needed to get Ona outside more than for just walks around the hood… we wanted to actually go out and play with her, and I saw the swing and thought “hey, that’d get us outside”. I asked Ona what she thought and she said “eeakekejahd”, which I took to mean “hells yeah, buy that swing” (am I justifying this purchase enough?).

So, even though Katy and Jodi came home from the wedding last night (it started storming and that put an end to the city slickers night in the woods), Ona and I got up early this morning for daddy/daughter weekend and hung the swing. We’ve actually turn this into a reclamation project for our outdoor area – we bought a big umbrella for the table and a fan to help with the heat and bugs. Hopefully we’ll be outside using it more often.

Here’s what Ona thinks of it so far (click for the larger version)…
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