Which is to say, I put in some hours on my treehouse project, today. Each step takes a long time, working alone. Today I worked on setting a kind of temporary deck on joists of the treehouse floor, where I can stand while I take the next steps in attaching the cables to the corners of the platform. It feels very precarious up there, as there are currently only two solid anchors – one large lag bolt at each tree. I needed to hoist a 4’x8’x3/4″ piece of plywood up there, to lay across the joists as a temporary deck. But it was very heavy – too heavy to just lift over my head and shove up there. So I had to engineer a “ramp” using a 16′ long beam leaned up against the “shallow end” of the treehouse, and then shove the plywood in increments up the ramp. It was all very tiring. But I’m making slow progress, still.
Day: July 17, 2020
Caveat: Art #82
I made this ink sketch in around 2011 I think. A quixotic fight against an alligator, per my teaching methods of the period.
Caveat: Poem #1447 “Lost”
ㅁ Adrift in seas of melancholy Witness to birds that perch in trees Scattered like dandelions Gray just like the damp skies Renderer of lines Painted but dull Wordless soul Person Lost
– a nonnet.