Warm your buns on this

It may not sound like much, but it’s been a long time coming and it’s actually quite beautiful: the John Stanford School has a new bench.

Last year’s fifth grade class donated a bench as their “thank you” gift to the school, but for reasons that only bureaucrats can fathom, it took until this year to get all the permissions and what-not to actually install it. This past Memorial Day weekend, there were several fathers out with their sons shoveling, pouring, hoisting and fitting the piece into place.

The tiles are leftovers salvaged by an intrepid parent from the Wallingford Steps, and the bench was put together by Ballard-based artist David Tuttle. Thanks to Ray Serrano (of Wallingford-based PotterySinks.com, pictured) for giving us the tour.