“Pop, what are you doing?”
That’s my son asking me the same question he has asked me 1,000 times. I’m fixing the old picnic table again. It seems like every year when we open the beach house we do the same things over and over. We make sure nothing is leaking and the washing machine works and check the refrigerator. Also, one of the things I always seem to have to do when we get down the shore is work on the old picnic table.
It is made out of redwood. It’s 75 years old and looks like it is 110, and always seems to be falling apart.
Subscribe to keep reading
This story is from our archive. Get your SandPaper Annual Pass for access to our digital archive, plus everything else a pass includes. Details below.
Annual Pass — $18 Details
365-day access to:
- The complete SandPaper digital archive (stories date back to 2012).
- Full photo galleries from our photographers.
- The entire catalog of SandPaper games, puzzles and quizzes.
How it works
- Enter your email below and click to pay the one-time $18. Card details are entered on Stripe’s secure page.
- You’re in straight away — no password to create, and nothing to set up or manage.
- You stay signed in. If you’re ever signed out, or you read on a new phone or computer, we’ll email you a code to get you back in.
- Never auto-renews. Your pass is good for one year. We will email you when it expires so you can renew if you’d like.
See our site policies for more information.
Already a subscriber? We’ll email a code to get you back in.
