My final look at 2007.
Every day on my way out the door, I see the oak tree in which we built our tree house. I decided to take a picture of it every day in 2007, and came up with this video:
It is pretty jumpy for the first part of the video, until I [...]
July was tree house month for us. Here are the final shots of the beginning…
And the end.
In late June, I took this picture as we were figuring out how to build a tree house.
You can see more of the process here.
“Dad, would you play with us?”
Maybe it was the way that he asked. Maybe it was because it had been so long since I had just hung out with my boys, without having other pressing needs. Perhaps it was half promise from the previous day when the answer to that question was, “Not right now.”
This [...]
Now that we’ve finished the tree house, I thought it would be worth while to look back and evaluate the process: What went well? and What I would do differently?
The Good
It was the right ages to build the tree house with the boys: They were not too young that they couldn’t help and not too [...]
I tallied up all the receipts from Lowes and the hardware store down the street. Total cost for the tree house (excluding the tools –drill bits, level, etc– that I had to buy) came to $277.51.
The break down ended up looking like :
Accessories include the rope, pulley, etc.
Hardware includes nuts, bolts, screws and washers.
Lumber [...]
(Note: You can see other posts in this series by going here.)
Now that we’ve finished our tree house, I wanted to share some of the resources that I found useful. There are several books by David & Jeanie Stiles are written directly to those interested in building a tree house, play house or [...]
Saturday we planned to get up in the morning as usual and work on building a trap door to cover the gaping hole in our tree house floor. I thought that it would take more than an hour or so. Surely we’d be done by lunch…but like everything else it took longer than expected
The boards weren’t [...]
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