Furniture Lawn Glider

For me, a furniture lawn glider conjures up visions of long lazy summer evenings at my grandmother�s house when I was a child. Grandma has this ancient wicker lawn glider. She always said her great uncle made it as a wedding present for her parents. That was the first time I had ever heard of someone making their own furniture. She and grandpa used to sit on that thing and swing back and forth almost every evening that the weather was warn enough to be outside. Of course, grandpa never stayed still for very long, so mostly it was grandma that rode on that glider.

The wicker was a sort of yellowish green color. Nobody why it was that color but we figured it must have been stained that color. That furniture lawn glider was comfortable to sit on and lots of fun to swing on. Not that us children were allowed to do that very often. Usually we got to use only if we snuck a ride. We were always getting into trouble for sneaking outside to swing on the glider. But sometimes if we did something really good, Grandma would let us swing on it. The problem was that she was afraid that we would start rough housing and break her favorite furniture lawn glider.

The glider was about five feet long and had a rectangular frame underneath it. It also had little wheels attached to the bottom of its four legs that ran on a metal track on the bottom frame to make it go back and forth. There were also four flat metal arms, two on each side, that grandpa called spring steel the would stop the seat from going to far backward or forward. I�ve always been interested in how thing work so the mechanisms controlling the movement of the furniture lawn glider fascinated me as a child.

Every time I think about Grandma�s yellowish green wicker lawn glider, I promise myself that some day I�ll buy one for my house. Maybe when I finally have grandchildren of my own, I�ll get a furniture lawn glider and rock my grandchildren on it.