Treehouse Update (again)

 

Fun times working on the treehouse! Good progress... Gotta figure out how to cut the roof to fit around the tree... and time to build the ladder this week.

Oh and we plan to decorate it for Christmas. We'll work on some video of that.

Treehouse Update (it's been a while)

So the work on the treehouse has become a little bit of an obsession.  I do nothing for days and days and then I work furiously on it all at once...  Lot's of progress over this past weekend.  Take a look below...working in the dark and hoping things are level and plumb.  The kids and Julie even braved the ladder and came up for the first time today... easier coming up than going down, right guys?

Next step:  build a ladder.  You should've seen my Dad and me driving back from Home Depot with 2- 2X8s 16ft long hanging off the back of my truck by 6ft and shoved through the open back window all the way to the rear view mirror.  ...He was skeptical.  ...I said that's why there is car insurance.  We made it!

LADDER:  To prep for this, today I pulled rise and run calculations from the good ol' internet (trust but verify).  We're gonna do a ladder at 65 degrees, 8-inch rise, 3.5ish-inch run.  Never done this before.  Maybe we should consider more medical insurance?

I'm seeing lights and a Christmas tree sittin in this thing soon... with timed Trans-Siberian Orchestra music.  Look out chick fil a!